This new study in Malawi showed that conservation agriculture adoption is most influenced by the adoption by neighbors, which could have implications for the overall cost of encouraging conservation agriculture across a region.

At a fundamental level, this BASIS project will be able to show the impact that subsidizing fertilizer has on yields, and subsequently household expenditures and general wellbeing.

This brief reports findings of a randomized field experiment that estimated the impact of biometric identification on the behavior of smallholder farmers in Malawi.

Our results, which are consistent with other research regarding FISP, suggest that the most vulnerable people in the communities were not the main recipients of the coupons.