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Field
Intervention (Public)
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Before
The major research question this experiment is trying to answer is if involving farmers in an intensive process of co-creating farming models that are based on agroecological principles leads to their adoption, specifically on the homestead lands compared to the farmers who are not involved intensively in a co-creation process and are just informed about agroecology.
To test this, we have two treatment groups- one in which farmers receive information about agroecology through a co-creation process, one in which farmers receive information about agroecology in a way which doesn’t involve co-creation, and a control group with no intervention.
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After
The major research question this experiment is trying to answer is if involving farmers in an intensive process of co-creating farming models that are based on agroecological principles leads to their adoption, specifically on the homestead lands compared to the farmers who are not involved intensively in a co-creation process and are given information about home-garden based farming methods and agroecology like a typical public extension mechanism.
To test this, we have two treatment groups- one in which farmers receive information about agroecology through a co-creation process, one in which farmers receive information about agroecology in a way which doesn’t involve co-creation, and a control group with no intervention.
Along with information, we randomly provide a monetary support of seed kits and basic material to set-up home gardens to 50% farmers in both the treatment arms.
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Field
Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
This study involves a cluster randomized control trial (CRCT) to study how information delivery through co-creation of knowledge could impact the likelihood of adoption of agroecological practices as compared to non-co-created information delivery mechanisms.
For the purpose of the RCT, farmers will be divided into three groups: control group and two treatment groups- treatment group 1 (T1) and treatment group 2 (T2).
T1 group will consist of farmers with whom information about agroecology will be developed in a co-creation process by directly involving the farmers in key steps such as making a shared vision about the future, introduction to agroecological principles and how farmers understand agroecology in local life, introduction to home-garden/ homestead based farming models and how to apply agroecological principles to homestead lands, discussion about improvement in homestead farming models, areas of capacity building of farmers, and village action plan on final types of agroecological models and practices to adopt or adjust. The co-creation process is expected to generate customized farmer suited action plans which will be implemented and reinforced collectively as a group (village). Additional financial support (in terms of seed kits) will be given if the farmers decide to adopt homestead-based farming models.
T2 group will consist of farmers who will receive information about agroecology in a non-co-creation process where farmers will be simply introduced to agroecological principles, to the home-garden/ homestead-based farming models and how to apply agroecological principles to homestead lands, without engaging them in any discussion about the provided information, their vision, capacity building needs, or about whether the model suits them or not. Here, we try to imitate the standard government extension delivery mechanism. Additional financial support (in terms of seed kits) will be given if the farmers decide to adopt homestead-based farming models.
The control group will capture business as usual scenario and will consist of farmers who will not receive any training or support.
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After
This study involves a cluster randomized control trial (CRCT) to study how information delivery through co-creation of knowledge could impact the likelihood of adoption of agroecological practices as compared to non-co-created information delivery mechanisms.
For the purpose of the RCT, farmers will be divided into three groups: control group and two treatment groups- treatment group 1 (T1) and treatment group 2 (T2).
T1 group will consist of farmers with whom information about agroecology will be developed in a co-creation process by directly involving the farmers in key steps such as making a shared vision about the future, introduction to agroecological principles and how farmers understand agroecology in local life, introduction to home-garden/ homestead based farming models and how to apply agroecological principles to homestead lands, discussion about improvement in homestead farming models, areas of capacity building of farmers, and village action plan on final types of agroecological models and practices to adopt or adjust. The co-creation process is expected to generate customized farmer suited action plans which will be implemented and reinforced collectively as a group (village). Additional financial support (in terms of seed kits) will be given if the farmers decide to adopt homestead-based farming models- but only in 50% of the villages selected randomly in this group.
T2 group will consist of farmers who will receive information about agroecology in a non-co-creation process where farmers will be simply introduced to agroecological principles, to the home-garden/ homestead-based farming models and how to apply agroecological principles to homestead lands, without engaging them in any discussion about the provided information, their vision, capacity building needs, or about whether the model suits them or not. Here, we try to imitate the standard government extension delivery mechanism. Additional financial support (in terms of seed kits) will be given if the farmers decide to adopt homestead-based farming models- but only in 50% of the villages selected randomly in this group.
The control group will capture business as usual scenario and will consist of farmers who will not receive any training or support.
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