Conservation agriculture in Laos: Diffusion and determinants for adoption of direct seeding mulch-based cropping systems in smallholder agriculture

Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 81-92

  Lestrelin, Guillaume ^a   Quoc, Hoa Tran ^b   Jullien, Frédéric ^c   Rattanatray, Bounmy ^c,d   Khamxaykhay, Chantasone ^e   Tivet, Florent ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c Programme de Capitalisation en Appui Aux Politiques de Développement Rural PCADR   (Laos)

^d Provincial Agriculture and Forestry Office (PAFO)   (Laos)

^e National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute NAFRI   (Laos)

Author keywords

adoption; agricultural innovation; conservation agriculture; direct seeding mulch based cropping systems; smallholders; South East Asia

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; CROPPING PRACTICE; DECISION MAKING; INNOVATION; SMALLHOLDER; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

LAOS;

EID: 84857022140     PISSN: 17421705     EISSN: 17421713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S174217051100055X     Document Type: Article

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