Sweetpotato-Biotechnology in different guises on a broad range of scales

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 204-212

  Brito, Lidia ^a   Brouwer, Roland ^a   Falcão, Mário ^a  

^a EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Mozambique; Poverty alleviation; Research system; Sweetpotato

Indexed keywords

MOZAMBIQUE; PLANT TISSUE CULTURE; PLANTING MATERIALS; PLANTLETS; POOREST COUNTRIES; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES; RESEARCH SYSTEM; RURAL DEVELOPMENT; RURAL LIVELIHOOD; SWEET POTATO; TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS; VITAMIN A; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCIES;

CULTIVATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIFFUSION; NUTRITION; PLANTS (BOTANY); REGIONAL PLANNING; RURAL AREAS; TISSUE;

TISSUE CULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CROP PRODUCTION; CULTIVAR; HEALTH POLICY; NUTRITIONAL DISORDER; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

IPOMOEA BATATAS; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 84855774759     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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