Work in Progress

This project studies how access to agricultural biodiversity affects farmers’ choices in Uganda through two linked field experiments.

The first experiment will elicit farmers’ willingness to pay for access to larger menus of crop varieties.

The second experiment will use a randomized intervention to facilitate access to Community Seed Banks and measure effects on varietal adoption, crop diversification, planting decisions, and seed sharing.

The project is conducted in collaboration with Uganda’s National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO). 

Funding received:

• Gothenburg University: 50,000 SEK

• International Growth Centre (IGC): £5,000

• BECC: 308,000 SEK

• Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA): 250,000 SEK

With Moritz Janas (Gothenburg), Ajith Radhakrishnan (World Bank), Joe Vecci (Gothenburg), Divya Vijayan (Kerala Agricultural University) and Prakashan Chellattan Veettil (IRRI).

This project aims to causally compare four payment models for agricultural emissions reduction, leveraging a large-scale RCT with 3,000 rice farmers in Kerala, India. All farmers are trained on the same carbon saving technology, while treatments vary in incentive structure: flat, performance-based, hybrid, and group bonuses. The study employs verified methane emissions over multiple years and assesses effects on adoption, cost-effectiveness, welfare, and equity, while being embedded in Kerala State voluntary CO2 Market, providing evidence to guide scalable climate-smart agriculture policies.

This project hase received 8.8 million SEK from FORMAS