Agricultural extension programs often train a few farmers and count on diffusion through social networks for the …-step experiment of an agronomy training program among Rwandan coffee farmers, we first randomize the concentration of trainees at the … farmers. We find no evidence of social diffusion; instead, control households experienced negative spillovers in high …

. We examine the two countries with the richest available sub-national data: Colombia and Indonesia. We assemble two … escalations of violence. "Best case" scenarios with panel data fall short of workable early-warning systems …

This paper examines the impact of a property rights reform in rural China that allowed farmers to lease out their land … toward more productive farmers. Consequently, the aggregate productivity of land increased significantly. We also find that …

consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical estimates of how farmers respond to changes in groundwater costs … variation in the price of electricity, a key input into groundwater extraction, we find that farmers are very price responsive … switching and fallowing are the main channel through which farmers respond to increases in groundwater costs. Using a static …

. Working with Kenyan farmers, we cross-randomize access to a simple savings product with a harvest-time loan. Among farmers …

the impact of phone-based monitoring on a program that transferred nearly a billion dollars to 5.7 million Indian farmers … beneficiaries. This led to a 7.6% reduction in the number of farmers who did not receive their transfers. The program was highly …

This paper explores the idea that a competitive seed system may systematically underserve farmers in small, agro …-ecological niches, leaving potential yield gains on the table and farmers in these areas less productive and poorer than they need be … niche market were substantial, both for better-resourced farmers (who used non-adapted hybrids and fertilizer prior to the …