diffusion of modern irrigation is a main obstacle for improving small-scale farmer productivity. …In most developing countries non-irrigation status often dominates adoption of traditional and modern irrigation … technology. In this paper, we study the effect of production risk on irrigation technology choice among small-scale farmers in …

This paper examines constraints to adoption of new technologies in the context of hillside irrigation schemes in Rwanda …. It leverages a plot-level spatial regression discontinuity design to produce 3 key results. First, irrigation enables dry … irrigation causes farmers to substitute labor and inputs away from their other plots. Eliminating this substitution would …

In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based …