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Impacts of a Large-Scale Agricultural Training Program in Armenia
Kenneth Fortson; Randall Blair; Joanne Lee; and Anu Rangarajan
发表日期2018-06-05
出版者Journal of Economic Development and Cultural Change (online ahead of print, subscription required)
出版年2018
语种英语
概述Many foreign aid agencies fund large-scale agricultural training for farmers in developingcountries, but little rigorous research has been conducted on whether these programs are effective. We conducted a rigorous impact evaluation of a U.S.government-funded farmer training program in Armenia. ",
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Key Findings:

  • Training in high-value crops and agriculture practices did not increase household income or consumption.
  • Training also did not affect mediating outcomes, such as adoption of agricultural practices or changes in cultivation of crops, which suggests that longer-term impacts are unlikely to materialize.
  • Many farmers lacked the financial means to invest in the types of practices that were the focus of the curricula, and farmers were also often unwilling to try new crops that had higher up-front costs even if they were likely more profitable in the long run.

We used a clustered randomized controlled trial to estimate the effectiveness of a U.S. government-funded farmer training program that trained more than 50,000 farmers throughout Armenia in high-value crops and agriculture practices. We found that training did not affect farmers’ cultivation of crops, agricultural practices, household income or consumption. Our findings highlight the challenges that even a well-implemented training program has in spurring behavioral change among farmers and the challenges of providing effective services when foreign aid agencies prioritize having a large programmatic footprint. These challenges were central to the lack of impacts of this particular program but are underplayed when foreign aid agencies decide whether to fund agricultural training program.

URLhttps://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/impacts-of-a-large-scale-agricultural-training-program-in-armenia
来源智库Mathematica Policy Research (United States)
资源类型智库出版物
条目标识符http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/489276
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Kenneth Fortson,Randall Blair,Joanne Lee,et al. Impacts of a Large-Scale Agricultural Training Program in Armenia. 2018.
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