Modeling farmers' decisions: A comparison between HDM and CART for oats-vetch adoption in the Ethiopian Highlands;Modellierung von bauerlichen Entschheidungen: Ein Vergleich zwischen HDM und CART anhand von Hafer-Wicke-Anbau im Athiopischen Hochland

Bodenkultur

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 271-280

  Darnhofer, Ika ^a   Gretzmacher, Ralph ^b   Schneeberger, Walter ^b  

^a Univ für Bodenkultur Wien ^*  (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adoption decision; CART; Ethiopia; HDM; Oats vetch

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031422974     PISSN: 00065471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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