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<div class="feed-description"><p> &nbsp;</p> <p> <span style="color:#059440;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Agricultural Economics &amp; Innovation – Work Package 7 </strong></span></span></p> <p align="left" style="padding:0px;margin:0px"> &nbsp;</p> <p> <img alt="" src="images/phocagallery/textfotos/p1000172hendrikhnke.jpg" style="width: 428px; margin: 20px; float: right; height: 321px;" /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:14px; line-height:22px;">WP 7 investigates agricultural innovation processes in the research region, and factors that enable or hinder their adoption by local smallholder farmers.</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size:14px;">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.</span></p> <p> <span style="font-size:14px; line-height:22px;">&nbsp;</span></p> </div>

<div class="feed-description"><p> &nbsp;</p> <p> <span style="color:#059440;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><strong>Agricultural Economics &amp; Innovation – Work Package 7 </strong></span></span></p> <p align="left" style="padding:0px;margin:0px"> &nbsp;</p> <p> <img alt="" src="images/phocagallery/textfotos/p1000172hendrikhnke.jpg" style="width: 428px; margin: 20px; float: right; height: 321px;" /></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size:14px; line-height:22px;">WP 7 investigates agricultural innovation processes in the research region, and factors that enable or hinder their adoption by local smallholder farmers.</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size:14px;">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.</span></p> <p> <span style="font-size:14px; line-height:22px;">&nbsp;</span></p> </div>