Low adoption of agricultural technologies holds large productivity consequences for
developing countries. Many countries hire agricultural extension agents to communicate …

Low adoption of agricultural technologies holds large productivity consequences for
developing countries. Agricultural extension services counter information failures by …

Agricultural technologies typically spread as farmers learn about profitability through social
networks. This process can be nuanced, however, when net returns for some farmers may …

Inadequate information on the benefits of and knowledge about innovative agricultural
technologies continue to be a major constraint to technology adoption among smallholder …

Technological improvements, perhaps especially in agriculture, drive sustainable advances
in labor productivity, incomes, food security and general economic growth. But improved …

Inadequate learning is an oft-cited friction impeding the adoption of improved agricultural
technology in the developing world. We provide experimental evidence that farmer field …

This article adds to the literature about the impact of social networks on the adoption of
modern seed technologies among smallholder farmers in developing countries. The …

This paper presents results from a study that identified patterns of social interaction among
small farmers in three agricultural subsectors in Bolivia—fish culture, peanut production, and …

Extension is designed to enable lab-to-farm technology diffusion. Decentralized models
assume that information flows from researchers to extension workers, and from extension …

The adoption of new technology is a central feature of the transformation of farming systems
during the process of economic development. There is a rich tradition of social science …