Adoption of improved potato varieties in Ethiopia: The role of agricultural knowledge and innovation system and smallholder farmers’ quality assessment

By G. Abebe, J. Bijman, S. Pascucci, Onno S. W. F. Omta. 2013

190 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Food Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. G. Abebe
2. J. Bijman
3. A. Royer
4. C. Gardebroek
5. N. Heerink

In Plant Science

1. G. Abebe
2. J. Bijman
3. A. Royer
4. C. Gardebroek

Citations in the corpus

• Cooperative membership and farmers’ choice of marketing channels – Evidence from apple farmers in Shaanxi and Shandong Provinces, China (2018, background): “On the other hand, these new markets in turn require compliance with higher production and food safety standards and the stronger coordination of sequential activities in the value chain (Abebe et al., 2013).”
• Are middlemen facilitators or barriers to improve smallholders' welfare in rural economies? Empirical evidence from Ethiopia (2016, background): “Though market-oriented farmers in the region generally grow the ‘Nech Abeba’ variety, which is also considered the main commercial potato variety (Abebe et al., 2013), the average price received by smallholders trading through middlemen was 15% lower than the price received by farmers selling…”