This paper evaluates the utility of the `learning selection' model of the early adoption process, based on a constructivist conceptual framework, to explain farmers' adoption and rejection of two soil-improving technologies alley farming and the use of Mucuna cover crops. The analysis showed th...
Douthwaite, Boru
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Keatinge, J.D.H.
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Chianu, J.N.
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[The adoption of alley farming and Mucuna : Lessons for research, development and extension]
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The adoption of alley farming and Mucuna : Lessons for research, development and extension
Crop promotion is critical for market creation and rural growth in Africa. How to achieve this for crops, other than major staples (e.g., maize) and traditional export crops (e.g., tea), remains a problem since most African countries tend to focus policy attention to major staples and traditional...
Chianu, J.N.
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Ohiokpehai, O
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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Adesina, A.A.
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Groot, Hugo de
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Sanginga, Nteranya
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[Promoting a versatile but yet minor crop : Soybean in the farming systems of Kenya]
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Promoting a versatile but yet minor crop : Soybean in the farming systems of Kenya
Declining soil fertility is a major cause of low per capita food production on smallholder farms of
sub-Saharan Africa. This study attempted to provide an empirical explanation of the factors associated
with farmers’ decisions to adopt or not to adopt newly introduced integrated soil fertility ma...
Mugwe, J
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Mugendi, DN
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Mucheru-Muna, M.
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Merckx, R.
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Chianu, J.N.
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Vanlauwe, Bernard
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[Determinants of the decision to adopt integrated soil fertility management practices by smallholder farmers in the central highlands of Kenya]
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Determinants of the decision to adopt integrated soil fertility management practices by smallholder farmers in the central highlands of Kenya