Work in Progress

This project studies the causal impacts of Community Seed Banks (CSBs) on farmers’ outcomes in Uganda using a difference-in-differences framework with panel data from the LSMS. The study aims to assess causally the effect of CSBs on-farm crop diversity, welfare (yields, income, food security), resilience to climate shocks and ecosystem biodiversity.  This project is supported by NARO, the Uganda National Agriculture Research Organization.

For this project, I will spend the next six months conducting fieldwork in Uganda.

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 in Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), 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