This website presents the setting, interventions, data and results of a large multi-year Randomized Controlled Trial in Northern Ghana. This research, started in 2010 by four Economics Professors, in collaboration with Innovations for Poverty Action, sought to answer the following questions:
- To what extent do credit market imperfections and capital constraints inhibit investment by farmers?
- How important is risk and imperfect insurance in guiding the investment and cultivation decisions of these farmers?
- How profitable are the new technologies and recommended practices currently available to farmers?
- Is the adoption of new techniques inhibited by imperfect information about their profitability or optimal use?
The Research Program was made possible by the collaboration of a number of parties:
- Yale-ISSER-MiDA-MoFA-NGO cooperation: The baseline survey was provided by 2008/2009 GLSS5+ survey, designed for evaluation of MCC/MiDA program.
- Ongoing collaboration with a number of NGOs (Presby Agric, EWB, Technoserve; IPA provides infrastructure and core team).
- High level cooperation from government, aided by IGC.
Yale Economic Growth CenterThe Economic Growth Center's objective is studying and promoting understanding of the economic development process within low-income countries. 
Innovation for Poverty ActionIPA uses rigorous research approach to test and implement poverty reduction measures 
University of Ghana- LegonThe University of Ghana Legon is the oldest and largest of the thirteen Ghanaian universities and tertiary institutions |