TY - JOUR
T1 - Factors that drive peer dissemination of agricultural information
T2 - evidence from northern Ghana
AU - Etwire, Prince Maxwell
AU - Martey, Edward
AU - Goldsmith, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Soybean Value Chain Research (Soybean Innovation Lab (SIL)) under the U. S. Government's global hunger and food security initiative, Feed the Future [grant number AID-OAAQ5 L-14-00001].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This study relies on a triple-hurdle model to estimate the factors that determine farmers’ decision to participate in a peer dissemination project and then share the knowledge gained with other farmers. The first hurdle estimates show that proximity, income and social contacts determine participation. The second hurdle estimates further show that access to information, being a male and farming experience have positive effects on facilitating a higher level of participation. Estimates of the final hurdle suggest that geographical location plays a role in determining the number of farmers that participants of a peer dissemination project can contact.
AB - This study relies on a triple-hurdle model to estimate the factors that determine farmers’ decision to participate in a peer dissemination project and then share the knowledge gained with other farmers. The first hurdle estimates show that proximity, income and social contacts determine participation. The second hurdle estimates further show that access to information, being a male and farming experience have positive effects on facilitating a higher level of participation. Estimates of the final hurdle suggest that geographical location plays a role in determining the number of farmers that participants of a peer dissemination project can contact.
KW - Peer knowledge dissemination
KW - northern Ghana
KW - triple-hurdle model
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U2 - 10.1080/09614524.2021.1907536
DO - 10.1080/09614524.2021.1907536
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85105368710
SN - 0961-4524
VL - 31
SP - 606
EP - 618
JO - Development in Practice
JF - Development in Practice
IS - 5
ER -