Sharing seed and knowledge: Farmer to farmer dissemination of agroforestry technologies in western Kenya

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 167-179

  Kiptot, Evelyne ^a,b   Franzel, Steven ^c   Hebinck, Paul ^b   Richards, Paul ^b  

^a KENYA FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Biomass transfer; Improved fallows; Kinship ties; Knowledge generation; Seed; Snowball sampling

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROFORESTRY; SEED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33749010572     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-006-9007-8     Document Type: Review

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