How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds
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Miehe, Caroline; Nabwire, Leocardia; Sparrow, Robert; Spielman, David; and Van Campenhout, Bjorn. 2025. How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds. VoxDev article published online May 21, 2025. https://voxdev.org/topic/agriculture/how-misinformation-and-mismatched-expectations-reduce-adoption-improved-seeds
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Often presented as game-changing solutions, agricultural technologies like improved seeds or fertilisers can lead farmers to adopt one at the expense of others, only to disadopt when the expected gains, based on overly optimistic assumptions about reduced need for complementary inputs, fail to materialise.
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David J. Spielman https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6889-7358
Bjorn Van Campenhout https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2404-7826
Leocardia Nabwire https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6877-5748
Bjorn Van Campenhout https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2404-7826
Leocardia Nabwire https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6877-5748
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CGIAR Programs and Accelerators
CGIAR Initiatives
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Related reference: https://doi.org/10.1086/735822
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