Cowpea covers the largest area of any grain legume in Africa and is especially important in West Africa where Nigeria and Niger alone account for over 75% of the total cowpea production in the world. Despite successes of international and national cowpea improvement research in the development an...
Manda, J.
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Alene, A.
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Hirpa Tufa, A.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Kamara, A.
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Olufajo, O.
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Boukar, O.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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[Adoption and ex-post impacts of improved cowpea varieties on productivity and net returns in Nigeria]
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Adoption and ex-post impacts of improved cowpea varieties on productivity and net returns in Nigeria
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Facteurs socio-économiques et accès au crédit des petits producteurs de manioc dans le sud-ouest du Nigeria
L'accès au crédit est un facteur important pour l'augmentation de la productivité agricole. Le modèle " Tobit" a été utilisé pour évaluer les facteurs qui influencent l'intensité de...
Awotide, B.A.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Alene, A.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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[Socio-economic factors and smallholder cassava farmers' access to credit in south-western Nigeria]
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Socio-economic factors and smallholder cassava farmers' access to credit in south-western Nigeria
Previous studies on the adoption and impacts of improved crop varieties have relied on self-reported adoption status of the surveyed households. However, in the presence of weak variety maintenance and poorly functioning seed certification system, measurement errors in self-reported adoption stat...
Assfaw Wossen, Tesfamicheal
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Alene, A.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Feleke, S.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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[Agricultural technology adoption and household welfare: measurement and evidence]
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Agricultural technology adoption and household welfare: measurement and evidence
Adoption of improved agricultural technologies has long been recognized as critical for reducing poverty through increased productivity, incomes, and asset accumulation. Using a nationally representative survey data from a sample of over 1500 households in Nigeria, this paper evaluates the impact...
Manda, J.
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Alene, A.D.
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Tufa, A.H.
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Abdoulaye, Tahirou
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Wossen, T.
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Chikoye, D.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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[The poverty impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria: a counterfactual analysis]
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The poverty impacts of improved cowpea varieties in Nigeria: a counterfactual analysis