Decentralised innovation systems and poverty reduction: experimental evidence from Central Africa

Haki Pamuk; E.H. Bulte; Adewale A. Adekunle; Aliou Diagne

doi:10.1093/erae/jbu007

Decentralised innovation systems and poverty reduction: experimental evidence from Central Africa

Haki Pamuk
, E.H. Bulte^*
, Adewale A. Adekunle
, Aliou Diagne

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We use experimental data to investigate whether a decentralised approach to promoting innovation in central African agriculture outperforms conventional extension approaches. Our main result is that this decentralised approach, based on so-called innovation platforms, is effective in reducing poverty – more effective than conventional extension approaches. However, we also document considerable heterogeneity in terms of platform performance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	99-127
Journal	European Review of Agricultural Economics
Volume	42
Issue number	1
Early online date	27 May 2014
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbu007
Publication status	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes

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