eVoucher and Farmer Field School Impact Evaluation 2021 - Baseline Survey Round Mozambique, 2021 - 2022; Midline Round 2023

Despite strong and sustained economic growth over the last two decades, poverty in Mozambique has remained high, particularly in rural areas. With over 80% of the population deriving its livelihood primarily from agricultural activities, the rural development and structural transformation agenda is central to poverty alleviation in Mozambique. In this context the European Union Delegation to Mozambique launched the PROMOVE Agribiz program, which aims to improve food security and the resilience of smallholder producers as well as boost rural competitiveness. The program is implemented across 10 districts in the rural areas of Nampula and Zambezia
provinces.

As part of the PROMOVE Agribiz program, FAO will roll-out its FFS and eVoucher interventions to increase access to extension services with the aim of increasing local awareness of sustainable land management practices and boost access and adoption of modern agricultural inputs. To shed light on different constraints to adoption, FAO and DIME coordinated the FFS and eVoucher intervention roll-out in such a way that it allows for the identification of the impact of the individual interventions as well as their complementarities, providing for a richer understanding of constraints to adoption more broadly. Intervention impacts are identified by comparing communities and households that are randomized into one of four groups: i) Receiving an FFS, ii) receiving eVouchers, iii) receiving both, and iv) receiving neither – the control group. The complete experimental sample includes 388 communities and 4630 households.

Treatment assignment variables are embargoed until the study is complete.