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Digital extension, price risk, and farm performance: experimental evidence from Nigeria

dc.contributor.authorOyinbo, O.
dc.contributor.authorChamberlin, J.
dc.contributor.authorAbdoulaye, T.
dc.contributor.authorMaertens, M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-08T07:47:04Z
dc.date.available2021-07-08T07:47:04Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.citationOyinbo, O., Chamberlin, J., Abdoulaye, T. & Maertens, M. (2021). Digital extension, price risk, and farm performance: experimental evidence from Nigeria. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1-20.
dc.identifier.issn0002-9092
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/7162
dc.description.abstractDespite decades of investment in agricultural extension, technology adoption among farmers and agricultural productivity growth in Sub-Saharan Africa remain slow. Among other shortcomings, extension systems often make recommendations that do not account for price risk or spatial heterogeneity in farmers' growing conditions. However, little is known about the effectiveness of extension approaches for nutrient management that consider these issues. We analyze the impact of farmers' access to site-specific nutrient management recommendations and to information on expected returns, provided through a digital decision support tool, for maize production. We implement a randomized controlled trial among smallholders in the maize belt of northern Nigeria. We use three waves of annual panel data to estimate immediate and longer term effects of two different extension treatments: site-specific recommendations with and without complementary information about variability in output prices and expected returns. We find that site-specific nutrient management recommendations improve fertilizer management practices and maize yields but do not necessarily increase fertilizer use. In addition, we find that recommendations that are accompanied by additional information about variability in expected returns induce larger fertilizer investments that persist beyond the first year. However, the magnitudes of these effects are small: we find only incremental increases in investments and net revenues over two treatment years.
dc.description.sponsorshipBill & Melinda Gates Foundation
dc.format.extent1-20
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectAdvisory Services
dc.subjectProductivity
dc.subjectFarms
dc.subjectAgronomy
dc.subjectAgricultural Extension
dc.subjectFertilizers
dc.subjectPrices
dc.subjectNutrient Management
dc.subjectMaize
dc.subjectDecision Support Tools
dc.titleDigital extension, price risk, and farm performance: experimental evidence from Nigeria
dc.typeJournal Article
cg.contributor.crpMaize
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.contributor.crpPolicies, Institutions and Markets
cg.contributor.affiliationAhmadu Bello University
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationKatholieke Universiteit, Leuven
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWest Africa
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.hubHeadquarters and Western Africa Hub
cg.researchthemeSocial Science and Agribusiness
cg.identifier.bibtexciteidOYINBO:2021
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.iitasubjectAgribusiness
cg.iitasubjectAgronomy
cg.iitasubjectFood Security
cg.iitasubjectMaize
cg.iitasubjectNutrition
cg.iitasubjectPlant Breeding
cg.iitasubjectPlant Production
cg.iitasubjectSmallholder Farmers
cg.iitasubjectSocioeconomy
cg.iitasubjectValue Chains
cg.journalAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics
cg.notesOpen Access Article; Published online: 09 Jun 2021
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
cg.reviewstatusPeer Review
cg.usagerightslicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 0.0)
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12242
cg.iitaauthor.identifierTahirou Abdoulaye: 0000-0002-8072-1363
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