Do Female Instructors Reduce Gender Bias in Diffusion of Sustainable Land Management Techniques? Experimental Evidence From Mozambique

Kondylis, Florence; Mueller, Valerie; Sheriff, Glenn; Zhu, Siyao

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.036

Cited by 60 publications

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“…In one example of a messenger intervention, adoption of sustainable agriculture increased when the gender of the farmer was the same as the gender of the agricultural extension agent (Kondylis et al . ). Switching the default cost‐share from 0% to 100% in an auction to engage farmers in conservation actions increased the amount farmers were willing to pay by 9% (Messer et al .…”

Section: Evidence For Pro‐environmental Behavior Changementioning

confidence: 97%

Nudging pro‐environmental behavior: evidence and opportunities

Byerly

Balmford

Ferraro

et al. 2018

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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Human behavior is responsible for many of our greatest environmental challenges. The accumulated effects of many individual and household decisions have major negative impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem health. Human behavioral science blends psychology and economics to understand how people respond to the context in which they make decisions (eg who presents the information and how it is framed). Behavioral insights have informed new strategies to improve personal health and financial choices. However, less is known about whether and how these insights can encourage choices that are better for the environment. We review 160 experimental interventions that attempt to alter behavior in six domains in which decisions have major environmental impacts: family planning, land management, meat consumption, transportation choices, waste production, and water use. The evidence suggests that social influence and simple adjustments to decision settings can influence pro‐environmental decisions. We identify four important gaps in the evidence that provide opportunities for future research. To address these gaps, we encourage collaborations between researchers and practitioners that look at the effects of embedding tests of behavior‐change interventions within environmental programs.

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Section: Evidence For Pro‐environmental Behavior Changementioning

confidence: 97%

Nudging pro‐environmental behavior: evidence and opportunities

Byerly

Balmford

Ferraro

et al. 2018

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

277

210

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“…They also found that family, farm chemical dealers, seed dealers, and crop consultants are the key sources of information influencing a farmer's agricultural practices and strategy adoption. Kondylis et al [86] ran a large-scale field experiment in Mozambique to examine the role of gender in dissemination of sustainable land management techniques and found female farmers were more likely to learn and adopt the technique through female messengers.…”

Section: Information and Awareness Of Bmpsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adoption of Best Management Practices: A Review and Synthesis

2018

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Best management practices (BMPs) for reducing agricultural non-point source pollution are widely available. However, agriculture remains a major global contributor to degradation of waters because farmers often do not adopt BMPs. To improve water quality, it is necessary to understand the factors that influence BMP adoption by farmers. We review the findings of BMP adoption studies from both developed and developing countries, published after (or otherwise not included in) two major literature reviews from 2007 and 2008. We summarize the study locations, scales, and BMPs studied; the analytical methods used; the factors evaluated; and the directionality of each factor's influence on BMP adoption. We then present a conceptual framework for BMP adoption decisions that emphasizes the importance of scale, the tailoring or targeting of information and incentives, and the importance of expected farm profits. We suggest that future research directions should focus on study scale, on measuring and modeling of adoption as a continuous process, and on incorporation of social norms and uncertainty into decision-making. More research is needed on uses of social media and market recognition approaches (such as certificate schemes and consumer labeling) to influence BMP adoption.

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“…More generally, there is limited evidence of extension services' impact or cost effectiveness (13,16). Extension workers have been found to favor their own social networks (17) and neglect the most vulnerable farmers (18,19) and women (20,21).…”

Section: Traditional Agricultural Extensionmentioning

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Realizing the potential of digital development: The case of agricultural advice

Fabregas

Kremer

Schilbach

2019

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The rapid spread of mobile phones creates potential for sustainably raising agricultural productivity for the 2 billion people living in smallholder farming households. Meta-analyses suggest that providing agricultural information via digital technologies increased yields by 4% and the odds of adopting recommended inputs by 22%. Benefits likely exceed the cost of information transmission by an order of magnitude. The spread of GPS-enabled smartphones could increase these benefits by enabling customized information, thus incentivizing farmers to contribute information to the system. Well-known distortions in markets for information limit the ability of such systems to reach the socially efficient scale through purely commercial means. There is a clear role for public support for digital agricultural extension, but messages designed by agricultural ministries are often difficult for farmers to understand and use. Realizing the potential of mobile communication systems requires feedback mechanisms to enable rigorous testing and continuous improvement.

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Do Female Instructors Reduce Gender Bias in Diffusion of Sustainable Land Management Techniques? Experimental Evidence From Mozambique

Cited by 60 publications

References 24 publications

Nudging pro‐environmental behavior: evidence and opportunities

Nudging pro‐environmental behavior: evidence and opportunities

Factors Influencing Farmers’ Adoption of Best Management Practices: A Review and Synthesis

Realizing the potential of digital development: The case of agricultural advice

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