Contribution of Farmer-to-Farmer Video to Capital Assets Building: Evidence from Bangladesh

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 408-435

  Chowdhury, Ataharul Huq ^a   van Mele, Paul ^b,c   Hauser, Michael ^a  

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

^b Agro Insight   (Belgium)

^c Formerly Africa Rice Center   (Benin)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Capital assets; Gender; Rice; Self Sufficiency; Video

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953715954     PISSN: 10440046     EISSN: 15407578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10440046.2011.562059     Document Type: Article

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