I recently presented a webinar for ZALF (The Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research), providing an overview of the lessons we have learned from decades
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read moreOne of the papers in the recent AEPP Special Issue of papers on adoption of agricultural innovations is about how smallholder farmers in developing countries
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