Adoption of improved forage grasses in Western Kenya

This working paper presents the results of a study commissioned by the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) under the Grass2Cash project whose primary objective was to understand the underlying reasons why farmers adopt ten improved forage varieties in the four Western Kenya count...

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Autor principal: Oulu, Martin
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115960
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description This working paper presents the results of a study commissioned by the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) under the Grass2Cash project whose primary objective was to understand the underlying reasons why farmers adopt ten improved forage varieties in the four Western Kenya counties of Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia and Siaya. A gendered perspective to the motivations and challenges of adoption, and a review of the project assumptions were secondary objectives. A total of 61 adoptee farmers were purposively sampled from a CIAT database of farmers given the improved forages, 19 non-adoptees selected through snowball sampling, and 10 stakeholders (CIAT/SAC staff, government officers, and peer farmers) were interviewed face to face and through telephone between June and August 2020
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spelling CGSpace1159602025-12-08T10:29:22Z Adoption of improved forage grasses in Western Kenya Oulu, Martin innovation adoption technology pasture improvement feed grasses forage gender economic aspects adopción de innovaciones tecnología mejora de pastizales gramíneas forrajeras forrajes genero aspectos económicos This working paper presents the results of a study commissioned by the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) under the Grass2Cash project whose primary objective was to understand the underlying reasons why farmers adopt ten improved forage varieties in the four Western Kenya counties of Kakamega, Bungoma, Busia and Siaya. A gendered perspective to the motivations and challenges of adoption, and a review of the project assumptions were secondary objectives. A total of 61 adoptee farmers were purposively sampled from a CIAT database of farmers given the improved forages, 19 non-adoptees selected through snowball sampling, and 10 stakeholders (CIAT/SAC staff, government officers, and peer farmers) were interviewed face to face and through telephone between June and August 2020 2020-11 2021-11-10T13:35:44Z 2021-11-10T13:35:44Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115960 en Open Access application/pdf Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture Oulu, M. (2020) Adoption of improved forage grasses in Western Kenya. Nairobi (Kenya): Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT. 73 p.
spellingShingle innovation adoption
technology
pasture improvement
feed grasses
forage
gender
economic aspects
adopción de innovaciones
tecnología
mejora de pastizales
gramíneas forrajeras
forrajes
genero
aspectos económicos
Oulu, Martin
Adoption of improved forage grasses in Western Kenya
title Adoption of improved forage grasses in Western Kenya
title_full Adoption of improved forage grasses in Western Kenya
title_fullStr Adoption of improved forage grasses in Western Kenya
title_full_unstemmed Adoption of improved forage grasses in Western Kenya
title_short Adoption of improved forage grasses in Western Kenya
title_sort adoption of improved forage grasses in western kenya
topic innovation adoption
technology
pasture improvement
feed grasses
forage
gender
economic aspects
adopción de innovaciones
tecnología
mejora de pastizales
gramíneas forrajeras
forrajes
genero
aspectos económicos
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/115960
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