Household adoption of soil-improving practices and food insecurity in Ghana

Agriculture and Food Security

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nata, Jifar T ^a   Mjelde, James W ^a   Boadu, Frederick O ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food security; Ghana; Ordered logit; Soil improving practices adoption; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006105985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20487010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2048-7010-3-17     Document Type: Article

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