Impact of voice reminders to reinforce harvest aggregation services training for farmers in Mali (Impact Evaluation Report 90)
This evaluation set out to determine the impact on smallholder farmers鈥� crop handling practices and household income and health
Abstract
The study is based on a model where farmers are encouraged to decrease pre- and post-harvest losses through general training, after which they receive a series of mobile voice reminders. The targeted smallholder farmers received a mobile as part of the training package to ensure they could receive the reminders. The evaluation set out to determine the impact of this intervention on smallholder farmers鈥� crop handling practices and household income and health. The mobile voice reminders had a significant impact on the timing of grain harvest and on the adoption of improved grain storage methods. The reminders also significantly lowered the incidence of pre-harvest grain losses and of hunger. However, the reminders had no impact on the likelihood of selling grains through aggregation centres, on post-harvest grain losses, or on food crop incomes.
There is a brief based on this impact evaluation report.
This study is an output of the Agricultural Innovation Thematic Window programme
Citation
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Osei, RD, Dzanku, FM, Osei-Akoto, I, Asante, F, Hodey, LS, Adu, PN, Adu-Ababio, K and Coulibaly, M, 2018. Impact of voice reminders to reinforce harvest aggregation services training for farmers in Mali, 3ie Impact Evaluation Report 90. New Delhi: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie). Available at: https://doi.org/10.23846/TW4IE90
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International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), 2019, Using voice reminders to reinforce harvest training in Mali. Impact Evaluation Brief. New Delhi: International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)