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Sustainable Agriculture Research

ISSN 1927-0518

2 papers in the library · publishing 2016

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Profitability and Institutional Constraints to the Adoption of Fertilizer Microdosing in Northwest Benin

Sustainable Agriculture Research May 3, 2016 Erika Bachmann, David Natcher, Suren Kulshreshtha et al.

Various agricultural techniques have been developed as components of food security interventions, but their effectiveness in addressing food insecurity in part depends upon the effectiveness of these techniques in fulfilling farmers’ objectives. This paper presents the results of research that examined the constraints that limit the adoption of microdosing by farmers in northwest Benin. The...

Knowledge Diffusion and the Adoption of Fertilizer Microdosing in Northwest Benin

Sustainable Agriculture Research May 3, 2016 David Natcher, Erika Bachmann, Jeremy Pittman et al.

Soil degradation and low crop productivity negatively affect the food security of smallholder farmers in West Africa. Various agricultural techniques have been developed as components of food security interventions, but their effectiveness in addressing food insecurity in part depends upon farmers’ abilities to adopt these techniques. In this paper we present the results of a social network...