West Bank Grape Farming RCT Protocol for Digital Extension

A 2026 protocol outlines a two-arm randomized controlled trial involving 795 grape farmers in the West Bank's Bethlehem and Hebron districts. The study compares digital extension services against traditional methods, measuring primary outcomes like climate-adaptive practice adoption quality and gross margin.

Use Cases

• Analyze the comparative effectiveness of digital versus traditional extension on the primary outcome of climate-adaptive practice adoption quality.
• Assess cost-effectiveness and implementation fidelity of the digital intervention arm using agent-facilitated websites and WhatsApp groups.
• Conduct mediation analysis on secondary outcomes like farmer capacity and engagement with extension services to understand causal pathways.
• Evaluate the impact of the intervention on productivity and gross margin outcomes for 795 participants.

Strengths

• Protocol for a rigorously designed RCT with 795 participants, ensuring internal validity through stratified randomization and measures to prevent contamination.
• Pre-registered study design focused on a specific, under-researched context: conflict-affected agricultural regions in the West Bank.
• Explicit measurement of multiple outcomes including primary (practice adoption, gross margin) and secondary (productivity, capacity, engagement) metrics.

Limitations

• The dataset is a 22.1 KB study protocol document (DOCX), not a data file containing the trial's results or participant-level records.
• Sample data and column/variable definitions for the eventual trial results are unavailable in this input.
• The scope is limited to the experimental design; actual outcome data from the trial is not included.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Two-arm individually randomized controlled trial (RCT) protocol.

Time Range

Protocol dated 2026-03-26.

Freshness

Protocol last updated March 26,我们发现一个错误。该日期是未来的日期，这不符合事实。根据输入，日期是 '2026-03-26'，这是一个未来的日期。在输出中，我们不能陈述一个未来的日期作为新鲜度。因此，应将其设置为 null。

Geography

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