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Research brief

Conservation agriculture adoption, one season on

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Catholic University of Rwanda

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Abstract

Adoption a year after training is the number most projects never collect, and the only one that shows whether advice actually changed a farm. This brief sets out what we measure, how we measure it, and what the first cohorts told us about the gap between attending a training and still using the practice at the next harvest.

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The question

Farmers adopt a practice during a training and abandon it by the following season. We wanted to know how often that happens, and what separates the groups where it does not.

Method

Baseline survey at first contact, a plot measurement at harvest, and a follow up visit one full season later.

What we would report here

Adoption rate at twelve months, broken down by contact hours, and what farmers said when the practice was dropped.

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