Extension is designed to enable lab-to-farm technology diffusion. Decentralized models assume that information flows from researchers to extension workers, and from extension agents to contact farmers (CFs). CFs should then train other farmers in their communities. Such a modality may fail to address informational inefficiencies and accountability issues. The authors run a field experiment to measure the impact of augmenting the CF model with a direct...
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2014/08/01
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政策研究报告
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WPS7000
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1
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2014/08/01
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Disclosed
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Seeing is believing ? evidence from an extension network experiment
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farmer