594 farmers in Malawi to document the actual and potential adoption rates of improved groundnut varieties and their … makes it difficult to obtain consistent estimates of population adoption rates and their determinants using direct sample … estimates and classical adoption models such as probit or tobit. Our approach tries to control for exposure and selection bias …

effect framework (ATE and LATE) is used to estimate the ASI adoption rate and impact. The results show that the true ASI … adoption rate would be 86 % if all the population of irrigated rice farmers were exposed to it. The socioeconomic … show, as well, that the ASI thresher adoption could help irrigated rice farmers to cope with labour scarcity by decreasing …

We apply a program evaluation technique to data obtained from rural Kenya to assess the patterns of adoption of … improved pigeonpea varieties. The sample adoption rate of improved pigeonpea is found to be 36% while potential adoption rate … is estimated at 48%. The adoption gap resulting from the incomplete exposure to the improved pigeonpea is 12%. Adoption …

need for a full understanding of their potential for diffusion and the barriers to adoption. We apply a program evaluation … technique to data obtained from Tanzania to derive estimates of the actual and potential adoption rates of improved pigeonpea … varieties which consequently restricted the sample adoption rate of improved varieties to only 19%. The potential adoption rate …

This paper examines the informational origin of the low adoption rates of modern agricultural technologies in … adoption gap resulting from this lack of awareness and presents a methodology for estimating that gap and the truly informative … adoption rates and their determinants. This methodology is used to estimate the potential adoption rates and adoption gaps of …

This paper investigates the impact of credit constraints on the adoption of hybrid maize among rural households in …

L’objectif de la présente étude est d’évaluer la diffusion et l’adoption des variétés de riz NERICA en Guinée cinq … quatre régions naturelles de la Guinée. L’approche d’estimation du taux d’adoption utilisée dans ce papier se fonde sur les …% de la population guinéenne connaissaient au moins une variété NERICA en 2001 avec 23% pour le taux d’adoption observé au …

This study assessed the determinants of intensity of adoption of Improved Rice Varieties (IRVs) and the effect of … variables that positively and significantly influenced the intensity of IRVs adoption include income from rice production … seed and information about the IRVs are also essential to increase the intensity of its adoption. Programmes to improve …

The paper investigates the impact of credit constraints on the adoption of hybrid maize among rural households in …

In this paper we examine empirically the effect of Information and Communication Technologies on the adoption of … an observational data. We found that adoption of modern varieties is significantly higher for the farmer that have … adoption of improved varieties induced by listening rice program radio on rice yield significantly positive. Ours results …