Does Extension Work? Impacts of a Program to Assist Limited-Resource Farmers in Virginia

Akobundu, Eberechukwu; Alwang, Jeffrey; Essel, Albert E.; Norton, George W.; Tegene, Abebayehu

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9353.2004.00185.x

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“…Most part of the literature on impact evaluation of extension services programs on agriculture find certainty about increasing revenues (Akobundu et al, 2004) and improvement on technology or knowledge adoption (Lopez and Maffioli, 2008;Praneetvatakul and Waibel, 2006), but we find mixed results related to extension services programs effects on yield, specially on the short-run. Maffioli et al (2013) evaluate whether public interventions are successful in promoting agricultural technology uptake by small and medium farmers.…”

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Money for Wine?: Complementarities in the Provision of Private and Public Goods to Wine Producers

Gibbons¹,

Maffioli²,

Rossi³

2016

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work is licensed under a Creative Commons IGO 3.0 AttributionNonCommercial-NoDerivatives (CC-IGO BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo/ legalcode) and may be reproduced with attribution to the IDB and for any non-commercial purpose, as provided below. No derivative work is allowed.Any dispute related to the use of the works of the IDB that cannot be settled amicably shall be submitted to arbitration pursuant to the UNCITRAL rules. The use of the IDB's name for any purpose other than for attribution, and the use of IDB's logo shall be subject to a separate written license agreement between the IDB and the user and is not authorized as part of this CC-IGO license.Following a peer review process, and with previous written consent by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), a revised version of this work may also be reproduced in any academic journal, including those indexed by the American Economic Association's EconLit, provided that the IDB is credited and that the author(s) receive no income from the publication. Therefore, the restriction to receive income from such publication shall only extend to the publication's author(s). With regard to such restriction, in case of any inconsistency between the Creative Commons IGO 3.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license and these statements, the latter shall prevail.Note that link provided above includes additional terms and conditions of the license. Abstract This paper evaluates the impact of two programs that provide public and private goods, in the form of irrigation canals and materials (such as hail nets). Using a twelve-year panel of wine producers from Mendoza and San Juan, Argentina, we find that the programs have had positive and significant impacts on production and yield. We also find that the programs present important complementarities, in the sense that being exposed to the two interventions increases the outputs more than the mere sum of the separate interventions.

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confidence: 45%

Money for Wine?: Complementarities in the Provision of Private and Public Goods to Wine Producers

Gibbons¹,

Maffioli²,

Rossi³

2016

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“…The number of trainings taken by the farm manager was not significant but it still showed positive effects on the EE, AE, and PTE in vegetable farming. Extension and training programs help farmers in the decision-making, particularly for the varietal selection, farming practices, and marketing activities (Akobundu et al 2004). In the recent years, farmers' field schools have been established to develop the farmers' competencies in crop management practices focusing on the integrated pest management (IPM) (Joshi and Karki 2010).…”

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Efficiency of small scale vegetable farms: policy implications for the rural poverty reduction in Nepal

Shrestha¹,

Huang²,

Gautam³

et al. 2016

AGR ECON-CZECH

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Poverty and hunger reduction are intertwined challenges and enduring issues in the world, particularly in developing countries. Improvement in the effi ciency in vegetable farming helps the farmers increase the per capita income, reduce poverty and eventually improve the livelihood of smallholder farmers. Th is paper evaluates economic effi ciency of vegetable farms in Nepal using a non-parametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach. Th e results show evidence to suggest that vegetable farms in Nepal have a considerable potential for improving the vegetable production effi ciency with a greater access to improved seed, agricultural credit, and training and extension services. Some policies options with regard to the vegetable production technology, and support services for farmers in general and women farmers in particular, are suggested to increase the farm effi ciency. While some of these support services are currently available, we suggest that a more focus be given to creating the improved market access, to the women focused extension, and to training packages for the sustainable production. Th ese support services can lead to increases in the farm income and to reduce poverty.

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“…Fewer studies of the impact of extension programmes have been conducted in developed countries, although precedents exist. Akobundu et al. (2004) explore the impact of extension on limited‐resource farmers in Virginia.…”

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Quantifying the Economic Return to Participatory Extension Programmes in Ireland: an Endogenous Switching Regression Analysis

Läpple¹,

Hennessy²,

Newman³

2013

J Agricultural Economics

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This article examines the effectiveness of a government funded extension programme. Farm‐level data are used to assess the economic impact of dairy discussion groups, a common participatory extension method. The evaluation focuses on whether discussion group participants have improved farm profits, which is estimated with an endogenous switching regression model. This method controls for self‐selection bias due to unobserved characteristics, such as the farmer’s ability, that may affect both participation and farm profitability. After controlling for this potential bias, we find that the economic returns to discussion group membership are positive, thus supporting government targets to enrol more farmers in discussion groups.

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Does Extension Work? Impacts of a Program to Assist Limited-Resource Farmers in Virginia

Cited by 30 publications

References 6 publications

Money for Wine?: Complementarities in the Provision of Private and Public Goods to Wine Producers

Money for Wine?: Complementarities in the Provision of Private and Public Goods to Wine Producers

Efficiency of small scale vegetable farms: policy implications for the rural poverty reduction in Nepal

Quantifying the Economic Return to Participatory Extension Programmes in Ireland: an Endogenous Switching Regression Analysis

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