Seeing is Believing? Evidence from a Demonstration Plot Experiment in Mozambique

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationWorld Banken
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions, and Markets
cg.coverage.countryMozambique
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2MZ
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africa
cg.creator.identifierValerie Mueller: 0000-0003-1246-2141
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Mozambique Strategy Support Program
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Development Strategy and Governance Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number1en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorKondylis, Florenceen
dc.contributor.authorMueller, Valerieen
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-10T14:26:26Zen
dc.date.available2024-09-10T14:26:26Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/152076
dc.titleSeeing is Believing? Evidence from a Demonstration Plot Experiment in Mozambiqueen
dcterms.abstractWe preliminarily find that providing sustainable land management (SLM) training to standard contact farmers and having them maintain demonstration plots within the community on a whole had low impact on the knowledge and adoption of SLM practices. However, the aspect of our intervention that targeted a traditionally disadvantaged group as far as their access to extension services, women, was somewhat successful in terms of improving their SLM knowledge and adoption rates. Having a female contact farmer increased the number of SLM techniques adopted by women by 10 percent. Both male and female farmers in this treatment group identified female (not male) contact farmers as a source of learning for both SLM practices and non SLM-practices suggesting knowledge spillovers. Furthermore, farmers were additionally inclined to teach others what they have learned in the communities with female contact farmers. While we are currently analyzing additional factors that may affect the ability of the intervention to influence behavior, our results have broader implications for improving extension services overall. The Portuguese translation was published in 2015.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKondylis, Florence and Mueller, Valerie. 2012. Seeing is Believing? Evidence from a Demonstration Plot Experiment in Mozambique. MozSSP Working Paper 1. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/152076en
dcterms.extent20 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfMozSSP Working Paperen
dcterms.issued2012
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.languagept
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/150151en
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/148261en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/127330en
dcterms.subjectagricultural extensionen
dcterms.subjectfarmersen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectsustainable land managementen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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