Attitude counts: engaging with rice farmers in West Africa;L'attitude compte: travail avec des riziculteurs en Afrique de l'Ouest

Development in Practice

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 806-821

  van Mele, Paul ^d   Bentley, Jeffery W ^c   Dacko, Rosaline Maiga ^c   Yattara, Kalifa ^b   Acheampong, George K ^a  

^a CSIR CROPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Ghana)

^b IER Institut d'É conomie Rurale   (Mali)

^c Africa Rice Center ^*

^d AFRICA RICE CENTER AFRICARICE   (Benin)

Author keywords

Gender and diversity; Labour and livelihoods; Methods; Sub Saharan Africa; Technology

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LABOR; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; FARMERS ATTITUDE; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; LEARNING; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SMALLHOLDER; TRAINING;

GHANA; MALI;

EID: 84860638608     PISSN: 09614524     EISSN: 13649213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2011.582855     Document Type: Article

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