Farmers' perceptions of benefits and factors affecting the adoption of improved dual‐purpose cowpea in the dry savannas of Nigeria

By P. Kristjanson, I. Okike, S. Tarawali, B. Singh, V. Manyong. 2005

112 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. Leslie Lipper
2. B. Shiferaw
3. M. Kassie

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. M. Kassie
2. B. Shiferaw
3. S. Asfaw
4. Leslie Lipper
5. F. Simtowe
6. M. Wollni
7. Mekbib G. Haile
8. J. Thies

In Plant Science

1. B. Shiferaw
2. M. Kassie
3. S. Asfaw
4. F. Simtowe
5. Mekbib G. Haile
6. M. Wollni
7. J. Thies
8. G. Muricho

Citations in the corpus

• Farmer Willingness to Grow Switchgrass for Energy Production (2007, background): “willingness to grow switchgrass ( Kristjanson et al. 2005 ).”
• Agricultural Technology Adoption, Seed Access Constraints and Commercialization in Ethiopia (2011, background): “, 2008), cowpea varieties in Nigeria (Kristjanson et al., 2005) and maize varieties in Tanzania (Kaliba et al.”
• Impact of modern agricultural technologies on smallholder welfare: Evidence from Tanzania and Ethiopia (2012, background): “In Tanzania, the sampling framework is based on a multi-stage random sample of villages in four districts in the northern zone of Tanzania.”
• Enhancing innovation in livestock value chains through networks: Lessons from fodder innovation case studies in developing countries (2012, background): “…four decades R&D programmes have looked into the fodder scarcity challenge, with some success in developing and promoting food and feed crops such as: cowpea, improved grasses, legumes and fodder trees (Lenné and Wood 2004; Kristjanson et al. 2005; Franzel and Wambugu 2007; Horne et al. 2005).”
• Conservation agriculture, organic marketing, and collective action in the Honduran hillsides (2010, background): “Livestock may compete with plots for crop residues (nutrients) and labor and thus have a negative effect on soil conservation; however, some studies have found synergies between livestock and soil management (Kristjanson et al., 2005; Marenya and Barrett, 2007).”
• Technology adoption under seed access constraints and the economic impacts of improved pigeonpea varieties in Tanzania (2008, methodology): “Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) is an important grain legume widely grown and adapted to the semi-arid regions of South Asia and Eastern and Southern Africa.”
• Poverty Reduction Effects of Agricultural Technology Adoption: A Micro-evidence from Rural Tanzania (2012, background): “Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, DRC, Burundi, and the Comoros are pigeonpea-producing countries in SSA.”
• Improving market access and agricultural productivity growth in Africa: what role for producer organizations and collective action institutions? (2011, background): “The evidence presented below on the importance of collective action in the adoption of technology is based on technology adoption studies in Nigeria (Kristjanson et al. 2005); Zimbabwe (Jera and Ajayi 2008); Kenya (Shiferaw et al. 2009); India (Matuschke and Qaim 2009); Honduras (Wollni et al. 2010)”