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The Impact of Information Provision on Farmer Decision Making in Indonesia

Rema Hanna
Sendhil Mullainathan
Joshua Schwartzstein
In Indonesia, researchers conducted a randomized evaluation with seaweed farmers to observe both the impact of participating in a program that determined optimal seaweed production methods and receiving summarized results of the program on the adoption of optimal farming inputs. They find that...
African farm worker standing on metal platform is checking maize ears in machinery chute. Men standing below are catching corn cobs and kernels in gunny bag

Rates of Return to Fertilizer: Evidence from Field Experiments in Kenya

Esther Duflo
Michael Kremer
Jon Robinson
Researchers in Kenya collaborated with the NGO International Child Support to measure the returns to different types of fertilizer among local farmers. While results show that all interventions led to increases in yield, rate-of-return calculations indicate that not all were profitable for the...
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Insurance, Credit and Technology Adoption in Malawi

Xavier Giné
Dean Yang
In Malawi, researchers examined the effect of bundling rainfall index insurance with a credit program on farmers’ demand for credit. They found that bundling insurance with credit reduced the demand for credit, from 33 percent for credit alone to 17.6 percent for the bundled product.
A man is looking out over the land in Kenya.

Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Esther Duflo
Michael Kremer
Jonathan Robinson