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Farmers, consumers and gatekeepers and their attitudes towards biotechnology
(Academic Journals, 2011)
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Understanding adaptive capacity and capacity to innovate in social–ecological systems: applying a gender lens
(Springer; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2016)
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Reconstituting family transitions of Sahelian western Niger 1950-2000: an agent-based modelling approach in a low data context
(Cybergeo : European Journal of Geography, 2013)
This research analyses the impacts of the family organization on the diversity of income sources and the sustainability and the dynamics of rainfed farming systems of Sahelian Niger, through an individual-centred agent-based ...
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Las variedades criollas del maíz, los mercados especializados y las estrategias de vida de los productores
(Asociación Ecología,Tecnología y Cultura en los Andes, 2013)
En Mexico, no obstante la gran inversion y los muchos años de influencia del mejoramiento formal e introduccion masiva de variedades mejoradas de maiz, los agricultores de pequeña escala siguen cultivando las variedades ...
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Seeding Eastern Africa’s maize revolution in the post-structural adjustment era: a review and comparative analysis of the formal maize seed sector
(Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2018)
Improved maize seed is instrumental to deliver an Asian-style ‘green revolution’ for Africa. The paper reviews and makes a comparative analysis of the maize (corn) seed sector and its evolution in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda ...
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Processor linkages and farm household productivity: evidence from dairy hubs in East Africa
(Wiley Periodicals, 2017)
Linking smallholder farmers to large enterprises could be a powerful mechanism to improve input and output markets as well as other productivity-enhancing services for liquidity constrained smallholders. Dairy hubs promoted ...
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Role of mobile phone enabled climate information services in gender-inclusive agriculture
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
The mobile phone-enabled information delivery mechanism has the potential to reduce the knowledge gap between large and small farmers, and also across gender by creating awareness about new technologies and best practices. ...
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Fit for purpose? A review of guides for gender-equitable value chain development
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
This article presents a review of seven guides for gender-equitable value chain development (VCD). The guides advocate persuasively the integration of gender into VCD programming and raise important issues for designing ...
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Gender and agricultural innovation in Oromia region, Ethiopia: from innovator to tempered radical
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Tempered radicals are change agents who experience the dominant culture as a violation of the integrity and authenticity of their personal values and beliefs. They seek to move forward whilst challenging the status quo. ...
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Mobile-based climate services impact on farmers risk management ability in India
(Elsevier, 2018)
The climate service advisory was piloted in two states of India – Haryana and Bihar – covering 46 villages. Households were randomly selected in these villages to receive voice-based messages on individual farmers’ mobile ...