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 …

four individuals, cultivate fewer crops, have lands with low soil quality and poor irrigation water access, as well as …, have higher perception about freedom in crop choice, have off-farm work, as well as poor irrigation water access. These …

particular, the multi-purpose character of irrigation and drainage infrastructure creates several interlinks between water … residing in areas where communities use different types of irrigation water. The study used multiple tube fermentation method … socioeconomic characteristics, such as wealth, education level or social status. Households using surface water for irrigation had …