What is it about?
Lead farmers are used as a complement to traditional agricultural extension services in Malawi. The study assesses the role of lead farmers to disseminate knowledge about conservation technologies among smallholder farmers.
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Why is it important?
Conservation technologies are important to facilitate sustainable intensification of agriculture in Africa and efficient dissemination of knowledge about these technologies is important to stimulate adoption.
Perspectives
The study reveals that farmer-to-farmer extension systems can be an important complement to traditional extension system in relation to stimulating the adoption of new technologies.
Professor Stein T Holden
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
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This page is a summary of: Awareness and adoption of conservation agriculture in Malawi: what difference can farmer-to-farmer extension make?, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, May 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2018.1472411.
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