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Social networks and farmer exposure to improved crop varieties in Tanzania
(2014-09)
In Sub-Sahara Africa, adoption rates of improved crop varieties remain relatively
low, which is partly due to farmers’ limited access to information. In smallholder settings,
information often spreads through informal ...
Testing Theories of Change for Dryland Cereals: The HOPE project in central Tanzania 2009-2012
(ICRISAT, 2015)
The Harnessing Opportunities for Productivity Enhancement (HOPE) project was based on a
market-led Theory of Change in which farmers adopted new technology for sorghum and
millets in response to market demand. This Theory ...
Social Networks and Farmer Exposure to Improved Cereal Varieties in Central Tanzania
(2014)
This study uses probit and Poisson models to analyse the determinants of social network links for the exchange of information among 345 cereal farmers and the effects of social networks on farmer exposure to improved ...
Timed Strategy for Control of Bollworm for Sustainable Sorghum Crop Yield under Varied Regimes of Rainfall, Temperature and Soil Fertility
(2016)
Various environmental factors influence yield of sorghum grain, Sorghum bicolor (L) in Sub-Sahara Africa. Various production conditions of rainfall amount, temperature regimes, soil fertility levels and bollworm Helicoverpa ...