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Key Findings:

• Persons affected by the project (PAPs) whose land was expropriated to build the Di perimeter lost a substantial fraction of their land and agricultural sales revenue because of the construction of the perimeter (for which they were later compensated through higher-value but smaller plots of land). PAPs had undiversified production at baseline, but they expressed plans to shift to high-value crops.
• Di Lottery applicants’ use of traction animals, improved seed, fertilizer, and pesticide suggests that they could take advantage of new plots. Male applicants had higher literacy rates, greater ownership of larger areas of cultivable land, and more experience in irrigation and rice production.
• Di Lottery beneficiary and control applicants and households were balanced across the overwhelming majority of variables, suggesting that the lottery was properly implemented and that treatment–control differences can be used to estimate the causal impact of the lottery. There were, however, a few exceptions. Impact regression models in the interim and final evaluation will control for all variables in which beneficiaries and nonbeneficiaries are not balanced, in particular the number of household members listed on the application, gender of the applicant, and access to land.
• Farmers who subsequently benefitted from MCC’s farmer training faced suboptimal market access and use of nonmechanized tools, leading to limited baseline production, sales, and income.