Farmers' variety attribute preferences: Implications for breeding priority setting and agricultural extension policy in ethiopia

African Development Review

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 379-396

  Wale, Edilegnaw ^a   Yalew, Asmare ^b  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; POLICY MAKING; SMALLHOLDER; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ETHIOPIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 35648994376     PISSN: 10176772     EISSN: 14678268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8268.2007.00167.x     Document Type: Article

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