Small-scale farmers, who adopted flood-tolerant rice, reduced their vulnerability to seasonal flooding, increased investment in their farms, increased productivity, and subsequently increased their profits, whether or not flooding occurred. Targeting agrodealers with information, holding farmer field days, and spreading information through farmers’ social networks led to the improvements in adoption.
Featuring evaluations by Manzoor Dar, Kyle Emerick, Alain de Janvry, Manaswini Rao, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Eleanor Wiseman.