Maintaining or Abandoning African Rice: Lessons for Understanding Processes of Seed Innovation

Human Ecology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 879-892

  Teeken, Béla ^a   Nuijten, Edwin ^a,d   Temudo, Marina Padrão ^b,e   Okry, Florent ^a,c   Mokuwa, Alfred ^a   Struik, Paul C ^a   Richards, Paul ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Tropical Research Institute ^*  (Portugal)

^c AFRICA RICE CENTER AFRICARICE   (Benin)

^d LOUIS BOLK INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Farmer interspecific rice hybrids; Oryza glaberrima; Technology development; West Africa

Indexed keywords

CROP PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH; ETHNIC GROUP; INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE; INNOVATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RICE; SEED TREATMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT;

BISSAU; GAMBIA; GHANA; GUINEA; GUINEA-BISSAU; SENEGAL; SIERRA LEONE;

ORYZA; ORYZA GLABERRIMA;

EID: 84870302323     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-012-9528-x     Document Type: Article

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