Agricultural Economics & Innovation – Work Package 7

 

WP 7 investigates agricultural innovation processes in the research region, and factors that enable or hinder their adoption by local smallholder farmers. In collaboration with WP 2 we conduct two innovation experiments on vegetables cultivation in gardens and manure application in combination with more drought tolerant maize varieties. Futhermore, WP 7 conducts a detailed longitudinal agronomic study dealing with agricultural in- and outputs, including labour input complementing the 'SuLaMa Baseline Survey'. Farming households will be surveyed bi-weekly for an entire year. The outcomes of the survey will help to understand smallholder farming in rural Madagascar in order to design conservation and sustainable development projects in semi-arid "biodiversity hotspot" areas.

 

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Contact

 

 

Dr. Jan Barkmann

University of Goettingen
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development
Environmental and Resource Economics

Phone +49 551 - 3914492

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Hendrik Hänke

University of Goettingen
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development
Environmental and Resource Economics

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