Social capital, risk preference and adoption of improved farm land management practices in Ethiopia

Agricultural Economics (United Kingdom)

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 81-97

  Wossen, Tesfamicheal ^a,b   Berger, Thomas ^a   Di Falco, Salvatore ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b International Center for Tropical Agriculture CIAT Asia   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ethiopia; Innovation adoption; Smallholder agriculture; Soil conservation and water harvesting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930384819     PISSN: 01695150     EISSN: 15740862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/agec.12142     Document Type: Article

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