It is widely reported that women provide the bulk of food production labour in Africa. Since efficient targeting of improved technologies demands an understanding of who is likely to use them, and new farm technologies have often been inappropriate for women's needs, this paper presents the relat...
Enete, A.
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Nweke, F.
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Tollens, E.
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[Contribution of men and women to food crop production labour in Africa: information from COSCA]
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Contribution of men and women to food crop production labour in Africa: information from COSCA
This paper aims to identify the determinants of adoption of mechanized processing technologies in cassava processing. The paper is based on information collected at the farm-level in ten major cassava producing countries of Africa within the context of the Collaborative Study of Cassava in Africa...
Inaizumi, H.
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Enete, A.
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Brodie-Mends, O.
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Oyetunji, E.
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[Determinants of mechanized cassava processing technology adoption in West Africa]
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Determinants of mechanized cassava processing technology adoption in West Africa
Research in 1973 attributed large cassava root yield differences among three villages in southeast Nigeria to equally large population density differences. In 1993, the Nigerian national team of the Collaborative Study of Cassava in Africa (COSCA) went back to the three villages to see whether po...
Enete, A.
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Nweke, F.
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Okorji, E.
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[Trens in food crop yields under demographic pressure in subSaharan Africa: the case of cassava in Southeast Nigeria]
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Trens in food crop yields under demographic pressure in subSaharan Africa: the case of cassava in Southeast Nigeria