Labor, Liquidity, Learning, Conformity and Smallholder Technology Adoption: The Case of SRI in Madagascar
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- 1 January 2002
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- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
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This paper explores the roles of seasonal labor and liquidity constraints, learning, and social conformity factors in explaining the adoption of a high-yieldingKeywords
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