Stimulating Innovations for Sustainable Agricultural Practices among Smallholder Farmers: Persistence of Intervention Matters.
As part of the dissemination of sustainable intensification (SI) of agricultural practices in northern Ghana, farmers were conditionally induced with inputs to adopt the SI practices. We study the effects of the conditional inducement on maize yield and net income of farmers under a quasi-randomised...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Development Studies Vol. 58; no. 9; pp. 1651 - 1668 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2022
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