Effect of exposure to biofortified crops on smallholder farm household adoption decisions: The case of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Ghana and Nigeria

Effect of exposure to biofortified crops on smallholder farm household adoption decisions: The case of orange-fleshed sweetpotato in Ghana and Nigeria

Commonly used innovation adoption models indirectly assume homogenous information flow across farmers, which is often not the case. For new and or not widely known technologies, such as orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) varieties, exposure plays an important role in farmers’ decision to adopt. OFSP...

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Main Authors:	S.A. Adekambi, J.J. Okello, P.E. Abidin, E. Carey
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Elsevier 2020-07-01
Series:	Scientific African
Subjects:	Awareness Orange-fleshed sweetpotato (OFSP) adoption West-Africa
Online Access:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468227620301009

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