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Renee Yaseen
Renee Yaseen is a senior research associate at the Building Inclusive Growth (BIG) Lab at the University of Notre Dame. She is interested in research and entrepreneurship pertaining to the well-being of children, families, and the environment.
She graduated from Notre Dame in 2022 with a BA in Economics and minors in PPE (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics) and Theology.
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Digital agricultural extension: Stimulating or supplanting farmers’ interactions?
Governments and non-profit organisations are increasingly reliant on using digital technologies to deliver information. In the context of agricultural extension in Gujarat, this article looks at whether these digital flows of information crowd out in-person interactions that have been critical to agricultural technology adoption. It finds that access to a mobile phone-based extension system makes farmers less reliant on their peers for information, but still stimulates information exchange and increases demand for digital services.
