Our Research
Farm household decision-making is a crucial component in understanding why farmers adopt better technologies. Understanding farmers’ decision-making may offer insights on how to diffuse promising technologies such as conservation agriculture at a faster rate.
Our research examines farmers’ behaviour, particularly farm household decision-making of men and women farmers in the Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia.
Project Purpose
- Evaluate the value added by behavioural economics in understanding decision making by farm women and men
- Use these behavioural insights to design, re-design, test, and assess interventions in agricultural extension, input provision, and agricultural service delivery in the Eastern Gangetic Plains
- Incorporate behavioural insights in policy interventions to better reflect the context of smallholders with regard to adoption and adaptation of conservation agriculture for sustainable intensification
Objectives
Determine whether behavioural economics can provide additional insights in the adoption and adaptation decisions of farm-households in the Eastern Gangetic Plains
Identify what specific behaviours and bottlenecks are leading to or constraining the adoption/non-adoption outcomes and examine their implications for extension, agro-input provision and agricultural service delivery
Develop, test and evaluate program interventions on extension, input provision and service delivery that incorporate behavioural insights
Strengthen organisational and institutional (partnership) capacity on applications of behavioural science (behavioural economics and behavioural insights) to improve the impact of farming innovations in the Eastern Gangetic Plains