HARVESTING THE RAIN: THE ADOPTION OF ENVIRONMENTALTECHNOLOGIES IN THE SAHEL

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Aker, Jenny C.; Jack, B. Kelsey
• 署名单位: Tufts University; Cornell University; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_01404
• 发表日期: 2025-09
• 页码: 1197-1214
• 关键词: cash transfer; innovations; RISK

摘要

Many agricultural and environmental technologies require up-front investments. This may deter adoption, particularly in settings characterized by information, liquidity, and credit constraints. We test for these barriers to the adoption of an agricultural technique that helps address land degradation in Niger. We find little evidence that liquidity or credit constraints deter adoption: instead, providing farmers with training increasesthe share of adopters by over 90 percentage points. Conditional or unconditional cash transfers have no additional effect. Adoption increases agricultural output and reduces land turnover in the longer term. In our setting, training provides both specific technical knowledge and addresses behavioral constraints.