How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds

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dc.creatorMiehe, Caroline
dc.creatorNabwire, Leocardia
dc.creatorSparrow, Robert
dc.creatorSpielman, David J.
dc.creatorVan Campenhout, Bjorn
dc.date2025-05-21
dc.date2025-05-21T20:49:44Z
dc.date2025-05-21T20:49:44Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:29:36Z
dc.descriptionOften presented as game-changing solutions, agricultural technologies like improved seeds or fertilisers can lead farmers to adopt one at the expense of others, only to disadopt when the expected gains, based on overly optimistic assumptions about reduced need for complementary inputs, fail to materialise.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/174790
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/106066
dc.languageen
dc.publisherVoxDev
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1086/735822
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceMiehe, Caroline; Nabwire, Leocardia; Sparrow, Robert; Spielman, David; and Van Campenhout, Bjorn. 2025. How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds. VoxDev article published online May 21, 2025. https://voxdev.org/topic/agriculture/how-misinformation-and-mismatched-expectations-reduce-adoption-improved-seeds
dc.subjectagricultural technology
dc.subjectfarm inputs
dc.subjectfarmers
dc.subjectseeds
dc.titleHow misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds
dc.typeOpinion Piece

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