@article{Smale:93879,
      recid = {93879},
      author = {Smale, Melinda and Diakite, Lamissa and Sidibe, Amadou and  Grum, Mikkel and Jones, Hannah and Traore, Issa Seni and  Guindo, Hamidou},
      title = {The impact of participation in Diversity Field Fora on  farmer management of millet and sorghum varieties in Mali},
      journal = {African Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics},
      address = {2010-03},
      number = {311-2016-5531},
      pages = {25},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {Malian farmers have been cultivating millet and sorghum  for millennia, but they are
slow to adopt and develop  modern varieties because it is difficult to observe  the
difference in yields in their fields, given the  challenging local growing conditions.
Farmer participatory  approaches are therefore recommended. This paper applies  an
instrumental variables method to survey data from Mali  to evaluate the impacts of
Diversity Field Fora, a type of  farmer field school which aims to boost millet and
sorghum  yields by showing farmers how to manage diverse varieties.  Impact
indicators are expected and recalled millet and  sorghum yields, the total number of
unique attributes of  millet and sorghum varieties stocked as seed, and the  relative deprivation of the household farm with respect to  these indicators. The findings
suggest the project has had  results at one of two sites where it has been  implemented
with the same local leadership and more  intensively over a longer time frame.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/93879},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.93879},
}