Variety use and preferences among smallholder sweetpotato farmers and how best to improve their access to quality seed: A gendered perspective and implications for breeding program design
Uganda is a secondary centre of diversity of sweetpotato with most farmers maintaining at least four varieties in their fields. However, most of these varieties are landraces, with the uptake of improved sweetpotato varieties being quite low in the country, especially among women. Efforts to decre...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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CAB International
2025
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/174135 |
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