Harvesting the Rain
The Adoption of Environmental Technologies in the Sahel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19313693 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny C Aker (Tufts University and is now at Cornell University), B Kelsey Jack (University of California, Santa Barbara and is now at University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1197-1214 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-11 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6535 • E-ISSN: 1530-9142 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/rest_a_01404 |
| OpenAlex | W4390904490 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 31 |
Many agricultural and environmental technologies require upfront investments. This may deter adoption, particularly in settings characterized by information, liquidity, and credit constraints. We test for these barriers to the adoption of an agricultural technique that helps address land degradation in Niger. We find little evidence that liquidity or credit constraints deter adoption: instead, providing farmers with training increases the share of adopters by over 90 percentage points. Conditional or unconditional cash transfers have no additional effect. Adoption increases agricultural output and reduces land turnover in the longer term. In our setting, training provides both specific technical knowledge and addresses behavioral constraints
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Cash · Economics · Environmental degradation · Environmental resource management · Market liquidity · Natural resource economics · Agricultural risk and resilience · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Finance · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
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| Citations per year | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |