Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes 2014, Baseline Survey (Uganda)

Abstract

This study examines the adoption patterns and local market spillovers of a biofortified, nutrient-rich crop introduced to women smallholder farmers in Uganda. The study employs a clustered randomized control trial (RCT) covering a large sample of households across 210 villages to test the relative efficacy of interventions to relax adoption constraints to women farmers. A series of bundled and standalone treatment conditions address the following hypothesized constraints to adoption: resource, information, credit, time inconsistency, and price risk. The program was implemented by NGO BRAC in Uganda and targeted smallholder agriculture households with a woman of reproductive age (15-49) who are the most vitamin A vulnerable (pregnant or children under 2 years).