Effectiveness of the lead farmer approach in agricultural extension service provision: Nationally representative panel data analysis in Malawi
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Extension services; Lead farmers; Farmer-to-farmer extension; Social learning; Conservation agriculture; Effectiveness analysis;All these keywords.
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