Melinda, S. and Lamissa, D. and Amadou, S. and Mikkel, G. and Hannah, J. and Seni, T.I. and Hamidou, G. (2010) The impact of participation in diversity field flora on farmer management of millet and sorghum varieties in Mali. African Journal of Agricultural Economics, 4 (1). pp. 23-47.
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Abstract
Malian farmers have been cultivating millet and sorghum for millennia, but they are slow to adopt and develop modern varieties because it is difficult to observe the difference in yields in their fields, given the challenging local growing conditions. Farmer participatory approaches are therefore recommended. This paper applies an instrumental variables method to survey data from Mali to evaluate the impacts of Diversity Field Fora, a type of farmer field school which aims to boost millet and sorghum yields by showing farmers how to manage diverse varieties. Impact indicators are expected and recalled millet and sorghum yields, the total number of unique attributes of millet and sorghum varieties stocked as seed, and the relative deprivation of the household farm with respect to these indicators. The findings suggest the project has had results at one of two sites where it has been implemented with the same local leadership and more intensively over a longer time frame
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Oxfam America, Washington, DC (during the implementation of this research, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC) |
| Subjects: | Plant Production > Varieties |
| Divisions: | Millet Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Mr T L Gautham |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Oct 2010 09:16 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Jan 2011 19:41 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/112 |
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