Randomized Trial Protocol for Digital Agricultural Extension in Palestine

A two-arm randomized controlled trial protocol for 795 grape farmers in the West Bank's Bethlehem and Hebron districts. The study evaluates digital versus traditional extension services on climate-adaptive practice adoption and gross margin. The protocol is pre-registered and includes measures for internal validity and cost-effectiveness analysis.

Use Cases

• Analyze the impact of digital extension on the primary outcome of climate-adaptive practice adoption quality among 795 farmers.
• Compare gross margin outcomes between the intervention arm receiving digital services and the control arm receiving standard MOA services.
• Assess secondary outcomes like productivity and farmer capacity to evaluate the broader effects of the extension methods.
• Conduct mediation analysis on causal pathways linking the intervention to outcomes like farmer engagement with extension services.

Strengths

• The protocol is for a pre-registered RCT with 795 participants, ensuring methodological rigor for causal inference.
• Focuses on a specific, understudied context: conflict-affected agricultural regions in the West Bank of Palestine.
• Includes analysis of implementation fidelity and cost-effectiveness alongside primary and secondary outcomes.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 884.8 KB DOCX protocol document, not a structured data file with rows and columns for direct analysis.
• Sample data and variable columns are unavailable, limiting immediate use for statistical modeling or machine learning.
• The findings and raw trial data are not yet included, only the study design and methodology.

Provenance

Source

Amin Abu-Alsoud via figshare.

Collection Method

Pre-registered protocol for a two-arm, individually randomized controlled trial (RCT).

Time Range

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Freshness

Protocol last updated 2026-03 26.

Geography

Bethlehem and Hebron districts in the occupied West Bank of Palestine.