Do Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and intra-household and intergenerational deliberation enhance farmers’ irrigation responses in wheat? Field experiments from Nepal (Record no. 69684)
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| control field | 69684 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | MX-TxCIM |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20251218102405.0 |
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | MX-TxCIM |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Koirala, P. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 31448 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Do Interactive Voice Response (IVR) and intra-household and intergenerational deliberation enhance farmers’ irrigation responses in wheat? Field experiments from Nepal |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Lalitpur (Nepal) : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | CIMMYT, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2025. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 14 pages |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Open Access |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Limited adoption of technologies by farmers has been considered one of the barriers for both yield losses minimization and yield improvements. Literature increasingly identifies communicative mechanisms, such as Interactive Voice Response (IVR), to tackle those barriers across different contexts, especially in Africa. However, little is known about its effectiveness on crops’ various yield attributes. To this end, we institute randomized control field experiments among 813 HHs with three treatments: (1) No IVR and No deliberation (base/control group treatment, T1) (2) IVR and No deliberation (T2), and (3) IVR & deliberation (T3) to test how IVR (i.e., recorded agricultural advisories) and/or intra-household deliberation enhances HH’s irrigation responses, along with taking several other sociodemographic variables. In basic treatment, HHs make their irrigation decisions, but they neither distributed IVR nor asked to deliberate. In T1 treatment, recorded IVR-based messages are disseminated directly to the HH through Reengage via mobile phone without the involvement of extension agents or experimenters in message delivery, HHs are additionally asked for intra-household deliberation in T3 after they receive IVR and make irrigation-related decisions. Descriptive analysis from non-parametric tests shows significant differences between treatment pairs, especially district-level analysis indicates IVR’s effectiveness on farmers’ irrigation responses. Regression analysis reveals that farmers with IVR messages increase irrigation events by additional 15.2 percent points while intra-household deliberation provided with IVR message further increase irrigation events by 9.8 percent additional effect, leading to a total of 25 percent. Results also indicate that young farmers (i.e., GenZ, 18 ≥ age < 29 years) irrigate 25.2 percent less irrigation compared to adult farmers (i.e., Millennial & BB, age > 45 years) irrespective of the treatment groups they belong to. The findings demostrate that technology driven advisory services can improve irrigation practices, highlighting the role of intra-household deliberation in reinforcing information uptake. However, the effectiveness of IVR messaging was not uniform across regions. While some rural regions (i.e., Bardiya and Kailali) showed stronger responses to IVR compared to urban (i.e., Chitwan) regions, intra-household deliberation consistently played a positive role, suggesting that fostering family discussions may be key to improving decision-making regardless of regional differences in Nepal and potentially be scaled up in Nepal and with the similar contexts. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Text in English |
| 591 ## - CATALOGING NOTES | |
| Affiliation | Koirala, P. : Not in IRS staff list but CIMMYT Affiliation |
| 591 ## - CATALOGING NOTES | |
| Affiliation | Khadka, L. : Not in IRS staff list but CIMMYT Affiliation |
| 591 ## - CATALOGING NOTES | |
| Affiliation | Kafle, S. : Not in IRS staff list but CIMMYT Affiliation |
| 597 ## - CGIAR Initiative | |
| Donor or Funder | CGIAR Trust Fund |
| CGIAR Impact area | Nutrition, health & food security |
| Program & Accelerators | Sustainable Farming |
| CGIAR Action areas | Resilient Agrifood Systems |
| CGSpace handle | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178875 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Irrigation |
| Source of heading or term | AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1164 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Rural areas |
| Source of heading or term | AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) | 3441 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Urban areas |
| Source of heading or term | AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) | 14457 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Wheat |
| Source of heading or term | AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1310 |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Nepal |
| 9 (RLIN) | 3932 |
| Source of heading or term | AGROVOC |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mponela, P. |
| Field link and sequence number | 001714263 |
| Miscellaneous information | Sustainable Agrifood Systems |
| 9 (RLIN) | 21640 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Khadka, L. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1352 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kafle, S. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 11416 |
| 700 0# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Samaya Gairhe |
| 9 (RLIN) | 40836 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Krupnik, T.J. |
| Miscellaneous information | Sustainable Agrifood Systems |
| Field link and sequence number | INT3222 |
| 9 (RLIN) | 906 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lopez-Ridaura, S. |
| Miscellaneous information | Sustainable Agrifood Systems |
| Field link and sequence number | INT3360 |
| 9 (RLIN) | 939 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Link text | Open Access through DSpace |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10883/36292 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Working paper |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Date last seen | Total Checkouts | Price effective from | Koha item type | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Withdrawn status | Home library | Current library | Date acquired |
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| 12/08/2025 | 12/08/2025 | Working paper | Not Lost | Dewey Decimal Classification | CIMMYT Publications Collection | CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library | CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library | 12/08/2025 |