10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.5426593.V1
Bonan, Jacopo
Jacopo
Bonan
Pagani, Laura
Laura
Pagani
Junior Farmer Field Schools, Agricultural Knowledge and Spillover Effects: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Northern Uganda
Taylor & Francis
2017
Dataset
Medicine
Sociology
FOS: Sociology
FOS: Sociology
Science Policy
Plant Biology
FOS: Biological sciences
FOS: Biological sciences
2017-09-21
2018-08-10
2017
10.1080/00220388.2017.1355457
10.6084/m9.figshare.5426593
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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 and find evidence that the programme had positive effects on students’ agricultural knowledge and adoption of good practices. The project also produced 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.