Innovative and beneficial informal sweetpotato seed private enterprise in northern Uganda

Food Security

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 595-610

  Rachkara, Paul ^a   Phillips, David Paul ^b   Kalule, Stephen Wamala ^a   Gibson, Richard William ^b  

^a GULU UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Private enterprise; Seed systems; Smallholder agriculture; Vine marketing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; DEMAND ANALYSIS; FOOD INDUSTRY; INNOVATION; MARKETING; SEED; SMALLHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; VINE;

GULU; UGANDA;

IPOMOEA BATATAS;

EID: 85016378844     PISSN: 18764517     EISSN: 18764525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12571-017-0680-4     Document Type: Article

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