Delivering Resilience: A Decade of Experimental Research on Flood-Tolerant Seeds in India
Featuring evaluations by Manzoor Dar, Kyle Emerick, Alain de Janvry, Manaswini Rao, Elisabeth Sadoulet, and Eleanor Wiseman
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 agro-dealers with information, holding farmer field days, and spreading information through farmers’ social networks led to the improvements in adoption.
