The disappointing adoption dynamics of a yield-increasing, low external-input technology: the case of SRI in Madagascar

By Christine M. Moser, Christopher B. Barrett. 2003

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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Does the system of rice intensification outperform conventional best management?: A synopsis of the empirical record (2006, background): “Moreover, the collective labor demands of SRI can be onerous, leading to significant disadoption rates in some locations ( Moser and Barrett, 2003; Namara et al., 2003).”
Is rainfed agriculture really a pathway from poverty (2014, methodology): “The System of Rice Intensification in Madagascar and Conservation Agriculture in Zimbabwe are cases in point (Moser and Barrett, 2003; Baudron et al., 2012).”
Better Technology, Better Plots or Better Farmers? Identifying Changes in Productivity and Risk Among Malagasy Rice Farmers (2004, positive): “A 2001 nationwide census of more than 1300 communes, the smallest administrative unit in the country, found that 62 percent show no use of SRI, and less than 3 percent of the nation’s communes report SRI use by at least one quarter of the jurisdiction’s farmers (Moser and Barrett 2003b).”
The System of Rice Intensification and its Impacts on Household Income and Child Schooling: Evidence from Rural Indonesia (2014, neutral): “This is particularly relevant because some studies find that SRI requires intensive labor inputs for land preparation, crop care as well as water management, especially at the early phase of adoption (Moser and Barrett, 2003, 2006; Barrett et al., 2004; Berkhout and Glover, 2011).”
Adoption of Modern Agricultural Production Technologies by Farm Households in Ghana: What Factors Influence their Decisions? (2012, background): “…literature (see for instance David and Otsuka, 1994; Datt and Ravallion, 1998a, 1998b; DeJanvry and Sadoulet, 2002; Evenson and Gollin, 2003; Moser and Barrett, 2003; Minten and Barrett, 2008; among others) is an indication that improved technology adoption for agricultural transformation…”
Why agronomy in the developing world has become contentious (2013, background): “…and environmental and social merits of the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) (Dobermann, 2004; Latif et al., 2005; McDonald et al., 2006, 2008; Moser and Barrett, 2003; Satyanarayana et al., 2007; Senthilkumar et al., 2008; Sheehy et al., 2004; Sinha and Talati, 2007; Stoop et al., 2009;…”
An Inquiry into Constraints on a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of NERICA Rice in Uganda (2011, background): “…the production of other cash crops tend to discontinue the adoption of laborintensive cropping systems in developing countries since their opportunity costs of adopting such systems are high (Barrett, Moser, McHugh, & Barison, 2004; Moser & Barrett, 2003; Moser & Barrett, 2006; Neill & Lee, 2001).”
Factors Affecting Farmers' Adaptation Strategies to Environmental Degradation and Climate Change Effects: A Farm Level Study in Bangladesh (2014, neutral): “circumstances [49–53].”
Conservation agriculture, organic marketing, and collective action in the Honduran hillsides (2010, background): “Previous studies have found that in regions where off-farm employment plays a major role, farmers are less likely to divert labor to conservation practices if the economic returns from off-farm labor are higher than the perceived benefits from investing scarce labor in soil conservation (Jansen, Pen”