Acceptance and diffusion of rice-cropping techniques in Madagascar: Quantitative approach based on social experiment and network analysis

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K07637
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Agricultural science in rural society and development
• Research Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: KURITA Kyosuke 関西学院大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (60507896)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 農業技術普及 / 社会実験 / マダガスカル / 社会ネットワーク / ミクロデータ / 家庭内交渉力 / 市場アクセス

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to examine some problems for agricultural technology diffusion in Madagascar, and develop the diffusion policy. Especially, I focuses on the influence of the failure of the access to market, credit constraint, and the connectivity to social network. The result from social experiment indicates that the improvement of the access to market and credit constraint have positive effect on the agricultural technology diffusion. The estimation result based on household micro-data from several household surveys shows the positive relationship between variables of social network and agricultural productivity.

Free Research Field

開発経済学、国際経済学、計量経済学