Social learning in agriculture: does smallholder heterogeneity impede technology diffusion in Sub-Saharan Africa?
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Keywords
Agricultural productivity; Heterogeneity; Extension; Livestock; Social learning;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O12 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
- O13 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Environment; Other Primary Products
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Q16 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - R&D; Agricultural Technology; Biofuels; Agricultural Extension Services
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGR-2021-05-31 (Agricultural Economics)
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