Impact of Adopting Improved Seeds on Access to Broader Food Groups Among Small-Scale Sorghum Producers in Tanzania
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dietary diversity; doubly robust; improved sorghum varieties; inverse probability treatment weighting; Tanzania; weighted regression;All these keywords.
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