Agricultural Extension: The Kenya Experience

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The Rise and Fall of Training and Visit Extension: An Asian Mini-Drama With an African Epilogue (2006, result): “A 1993 study by Bindlish and Evenson reported large returns for T&V extension in Kenya, but it was contradicted by Gautam (2000), who pointed out some data deficiencies in the earlier study, and demonstrated, using better data, that the impact in Kenya was insignificant.”
Resilient Adaptation to Climate Change in African Agriculture (2010, background): “The fact that most rural households own at least one radio (cf. Gautam 2000; Ifejika Speranza 2006b) makes it attractive for disseminating information.”
Realizing the potential of digital development: The case of agricultural advice (2019, background): “More generally, there is limited evidence of extension services ’ impact or cost effectiveness ( 13 , 16 ).”
Strengthening Agricultural Extension and Advisory Systems: Procedures for Assessing, Transforming, and Evaluating Extension Systems (2010, background): “, constituting a “panel”) is analytically advantageous (Gautam 1999), although, as Ravallion (2005) notes, there are often practical difficulties with attrition of panel members, and selectivity biases can arise.”
The Perception of and Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa (2007, background): “Gautam (2000) provides an empirical assessment of the impact of Kenya’s World Bank-financed National Extension Projects I and II, which ran during 1983–1991 and 1991–1998.”