BUILDING FARMERS’ CAPACITY FOR INNOVATION GENERATION: WHAT ARE THE DETERMINING FACTORS?
| dc.creator | Tambo, Justice A. | |
| dc.creator | Wünscher, Tobias | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:17:58Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T08:19:47Z | |
| dc.description | While farmers have been recognised as one of the key sources of innovation, many studies on agricultural innovations continue to consider farmers as adopters of externally-driven innovations only. Based on cross-sectional data from 409 farm households, this study, in contrast, analyses the innovation-generating behaviour among rural farmers in northern Ghana. Inspired by two innovation theories – induced innovation and innovation systems – we focus on the determinants of innovation behaviour. Employing recursive bivariate probit and endogenous treatment-regression models which control for selection bias, we find that participation in Farmer Field Fora, a participatory extension approach with elements of the innovation systems perspective, is a key determinant of innovation behaviour in farm households. Other important determinants are education, climate shocks and risk preferences. These results are robust to alternative specifications and estimation techniques. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.182810 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182810/files/Tambo-Building_farmers__capacity_for_innovation_generation-128_a.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182810 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/597963 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182810 | |
| dc.title | BUILDING FARMERS’ CAPACITY FOR INNOVATION GENERATION: WHAT ARE THE DETERMINING FACTORS? | |
| dc.type | Text |