A Willingness to Pay (WTP) survey for agro-weather messages estimates what reach would be maintained if a subscription fee was introduced to a currently free service.

Access to credit remains a significant hurdle for sub-Saharan African farmers. This study assessed credit utilization and the intensity of borrowing by irrigated rice farmers in the Upper East region of Ghana.

This paper results reports from a RCT in Mozambique and Tanzania that bundled stress-tolerant maize seeds with index insurance for a seed-replacement guarantee. The analysis shows that farmers who experienced shocks and saw both technologies in action subsequently increased their agricultural investments, allowing farmers to return to return to their pre-shock positions and even to move toward higher expected incomes.

This paper reports results from Tanzania on targeted soil information. Only farmers who received the targeted recommendations and a subsidy to purchase the recommended amendments increased their fertilizer application and yields relative to the control group.

This study provides some of the first evidence on the effectiveness of a payments for ecosystem services (PES) program to encourage the adoption of soil conservation practices, specifically conservation agriculture (CA).

This study from Uganda finds that program phaseout does not diminish demand for improved seeds, as farmers shift purchases from NGO-sponsored village supply networks to market sources, indicating persistent learning effects.

A temporary subsidy for maize farmers in Mozambique stimulated Green Revolution technology adoption and led to increased maize yields. Social networks of subsidized farmers benefit from spillovers, experiencing increases in technology adoption, yields and beliefs about the returns to the technologies.

This study found that eligibility for an agricultural extension program in Uganda reduced the proportion of household members with malaria by 8.9 percentage points, with children and pregnant women experiencing substantial improvements.

This study tests whether a new financial product that offers guaranteed credit access after a shock allows households to insure themselves against risk with a large-scale RCT involving 300,000 subjects in Bangladesh with one of the country’s largest microcredit institutions.

A Randomized Control Trial introduced sorghum farmers in Burkina Faso to a technology for applying small amounts of fertilizer at the time of planting, and provided a randomly assigned subset of farmers with free kits comprised of mineral fertilizer and improved seed. Results show that a targeted approach is much more effective in encouraging broader adoption in the longterm.