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  1. Spoken words fly away, written words remain
    employment contracts between farmers and farm workers
    Autor*in: Jäckering, Lisa; Meemken, Eva-Marie; Sellare, Jorge; Qaim, Matin
    Erschienen: April 2020
    Verlag:  RTG 1666 GlobalFood, University of Goettingen, Göttingen

    Farm workers in developing countries often belong to the poorest of the poor. They typically face low wages, informal working arrangements, and inadequate social protection. Written employment contracts with clearly defined rights and obligations... mehr

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    Farm workers in developing countries often belong to the poorest of the poor. They typically face low wages, informal working arrangements, and inadequate social protection. Written employment contracts with clearly defined rights and obligations could possibly help, but it is not clear how such contracts could be introduced and promoted in traditional peasant environments. To address this question, we develop and implement a randomized controlled trial with farmers in Côte d'Ivoire. We evaluate whether an awareness campaign about possible features and benefits of employment contracts can influence farmers' preferences and willingness to sign a contract with their workers. Choice experimental results show that - in comparison to the control group - farmers who were randomly assigned to the awareness campaign have a stronger preference for written contracts and a higher willingness to include contractual features with social benefits for workers. We also analyze treatment effects on farmers' knowledge and behavior. Farmers in the treatment group are more informed about the procedure of initiating and signing a contract. They are also significantly more likely to have started this procedure by talking with their workers about a contract and making an appointment with the local authorities. Effects on actually signing a contract as the last step of this procedure are not significant, possibly because the time frame of the research was relatively short. Nevertheless, results suggest that information and awareness campaigns may help to improve farm workers' employment conditions in traditional peasant environments.

     
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    hdl: 10419/215844
    Schriftenreihe: GlobalFood discussion papers ; no. 143
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  2. Agriculture-nutrition linkages in farmers' communication networks
    Autor*in: Jäckering, Lisa; Gödecke, Theda; Wollni, Meike
    Erschienen: July 2018
    Verlag:  RTG 1666 GlobalFood, University of Goettingen, Göttingen

    In the recent development discourse, much emphasis has been placed on making agriculture more nutrition-sensitive as an important component in combating hunger and malnutrition among rural households in developing countries. In order to achieve this... mehr

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    In the recent development discourse, much emphasis has been placed on making agriculture more nutrition-sensitive as an important component in combating hunger and malnutrition among rural households in developing countries. In order to achieve this at scale, nutrition information could be diffused to farm households organized in community-based organizations (CBOs) through the existing agricultural extension systems. However, to date little is known about how information flows within CBOs and how extension interventions could be designed to deliver combined information on agriculture and nutrition. This study uses unique network data from 815 farm households in Kenya to investigate the structure and characteristics of agricultural and nutrition information networks within CBOs. Dyadic regressions are used to analyze the factors influencing link formation for the exchange of agricultural and nutrition information. In addition, we apply fixed-effects models to identify the characteristics of central persons driving information exchange in the two networks, as well as potentially isolated persons, who are excluded from information networks within their CBOs. Our results show that nutrition information is exchanged within CBOs, although to a limited extent, and mostly flows through the existing agricultural information links. Thus, diffusing nutrition information through agricultural extension systems may indeed be a viable approach. Our findings further suggest that group leaders and persons living in central locations are important drivers in the diffusion of information in both networks and may thus serve as suitable entry points for nutrition-sensitive extension programs. However, we also identify important heterogeneities in network characteristics. In particular, nutrition information is less often exchanged between men and women, and some group members are completely isolated from nutrition information exchange within their CBOs. We derive recommendations on taking these differences in network structure and characteristics into account when designing nutrition-sensitive extension programs.

     
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    hdl: 10419/180203
    Schriftenreihe: GlobalFood discussion papers ; no. 124
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  3. How to make farming and agricultural extension more nutrition-sensitive
    evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Kenya
    Autor*in: Ogutu, Sylvester Ochieng; Fongar, Andrea; Gödecke, Theda; Jäckering, Lisa; Mwololo, Henry; Njuguna, Michael; Wollni, Meike; Qaim, Matin
    Erschienen: January 2018
    Verlag:  RTG 1666 GlobalFood, Göttingen

    We analyze how agricultural extension can be made more effective in terms of increasing smallholder farmers' adoption of pro-nutrition technologies, such as biofortified crops. In a randomized controlled trial with farmers in Western Kenya, we... mehr

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    We analyze how agricultural extension can be made more effective in terms of increasing smallholder farmers' adoption of pro-nutrition technologies, such as biofortified crops. In a randomized controlled trial with farmers in Western Kenya, we implemented several extension treatments and evaluated their effects on the adoption of beans that were biofortified with iron and zinc. Difference-in-difference estimates show that intensive agricultural training tailored to local conditions can increase technology adoption considerably. Within less than one year, adoption of biofortified beans increased from almost zero to more than 20%. Providing additional nutrition training further increased adoption by another 10-12 percentage points, as this has helped farmers to better appreciate the technology's nutritional benefits. These results suggest that effective nutrition training through agricultural extension services is possible. Providing marketing training did not lead to additional adoption effects, although the study period may have been too short to measure these effects properly. This study is a first attempt to analyze how improved designs of agricultural extension can help to make smallholder farming more nutrition-sensitive. More research in this direction is needed.

     
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    hdl: 10419/172537
    Schriftenreihe: GlobalFood discussion papers ; no. 114
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 43 Seiten)