Date of This Version
12-12-2016
Abstract
We analyse the impact of a junior farmer field school project in Northern Uganda on students’ agricultural knowledge and practices. We also test for the presence of intergenerational learning spillover within households. We use differences-in-differences estimators with ex-ante matching. We find that the program had positive effects on students’ agricultural knowledge and adoption of good practices and that it produced some spillover effects in terms of improvements of household agricultural knowledge and food security. Overall, our results point to the importance of adapting the basic principles of farmer field schools to children.
Recommended Citation
Bonan, Jacopo and Pagani, Laura, "Junior Farmer Field Schools, Agricultural Knowledge and Spillover Effects: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda" (December 12, 2016). Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Working Papers. Paper 1159.
https://services.bepress.com/feem/paper1159