Technology adoption and farmer beliefs: Experimental evidence from Tanzania
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Food Security and Poverty;NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2024-08-19 (Agricultural Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2024-08-19 (Experimental Economics)
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