Supplementary file 4_Digital versus traditional agricultural extension for promoting climate-adaptive grape farming in the West Bank of Palestine: a randomized controlled trial protocol.docx

West Bank of Palestine is the setting for a two-arm randomized controlled trial protocol involving 795 grape farmers from Bethlehem and Hebron districts. The study aims to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of digital and traditional agricultural extension services on climate-adaptive practice adoption and gross margin. The protocol is pre-registered and includes analysis of implementation fidelity, cost-effectiveness, and causal pathways.

Use Cases

• Analyze the primary outcome of climate-adaptive practice adoption quality between the digital extension and control arms.
• Compare gross margin outcomes, a primary measure, across the intervention and standard service groups.
• Assess secondary outcomes like farmer capacity and engagement with extension services from the trial data.
• Conduct mediation analysis on causal pathways as outlined in the registered study protocol.

Strengths

• Study protocol is pre-registered (AEARCTR-0016046), ensuring internal validity and reproducibility.
• Focuses on a specific population of 795 grape farmers in a conflict-affected setting.
• Designed to overcome documented barriers where only 7.1% of farmers are reached by traditional services.

Limitations

• The dataset is a study protocol document (DOCX), not the resulting trial data, limiting immediate analytical use.
• Sample size of 795 farmers may be insufficient for highly granular subgroup analyses.
• Geographic scope is limited to the Bethlehem and Hebron districts of the West Bank.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Amin Abu-Alsoud.

Collection Method

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

Time Range

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Freshness

Protocol last updated in March 2026.

Geography

Occupied West Bank of Palestine, specifically Bethlehem and Hebron districts.