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    2. Enabling rural innovation: empowering farmers to take advantage of market opportunities and improve livelihoods

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Kaaria, Susan (author), Njuki, Jemimah (author), Abenakyo, Annet (author), Delve, Robert (author), and Sanginga, Pascal C. (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01258
    Notes:
    Pages 167-185 in Pascal C. Sanginga, Ann Waters-Bayer, Susan Kaaria, Jemimah Njuki and Chesha Wettasinha (Eds.), Innovation Africa: enriching farmers' livelihoods. Earthscan, London, England. 405 pages.

    3. Gender impacts on adoption of new technologies: evidence from Uganda

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Tanellari, Eftila (author), Kostandini, Genti (author), and Bonabana, Jackie (author)
    Format:
    Paper
    Publication Date:
    2013-02-03
    Published:
    Uganda
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 186 Document Number: D00896
    Notes:
    Paper presented at the Southern Agricultural Economics Association annual meeting, Orlando, Florida, February 3-5, 2013. 17 pages.

    4. Gender issues and agricultural technology development

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Jiggins, Janice (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    1990
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00783
    Notes:
    Pages 45-51 in Miguel A. Altieri and Susanna B. Hecht (eds.)1990. Agroecology and small farm development. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida. 262 pages.

    5. Indigenous agricultural revolution: ecology and food production in West Africa

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Richards, Paul (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1985
    Published:
    International: Hutchinson, London, England; Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00784
    Notes:
    192 pages., (p. 115) Argues that "subsistence" is misunderstood. Suggests that it specializes in low profit/low risk actions involving food production and local trade rather than high profit/high risk activity linked to urban merchants and long-distance trade routes. (p. 116) "Academic and professional commentators on African agriculture have too often tended either to ignore female farming or to assume that it was undertaken for subsistence purposes."

    8. Social networks and status in adopting agricultural technologies and practices among small-scale farmers in Uganda

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Mazur, Robert (author) and Onzere, Sheila (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Uganda
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01255
    Notes:
    Pages 120-134 in Pascal C. Sanginga, Ann Waters-Bayer, Susan Kaaria, Jemimah Njuki and Chesha Wettasinha (Eds.), Innovation Africa: enriching farmers' livelihoods. Earthscan, London, England. 405 pages.

    10. Why do farmers innovate and why don't they innovate more? Insights from a study in East Africa

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Nielsen, Flemming (author)
    Format:
    Book chapter
    Publication Date:
    2001
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01200
    Notes:
    Pages 92-103 in Chris Reij and Ann Waters-Bayer (eds.), Farmer innovation in Africa: a source of inspiration for agricultural development. Earthscan Publications Ltd., London, England. 362 pages.