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Smallholder farmers as a heterogeneous group: Assessing how farmers’ perception of their livelihood situation is influenced by intersecting social differences

Problem: The likelihood that farmers adopt innovations depends inter alia on how they view their livelihood system and how they perceive the problem to be solved by the innovation. Their perspectives are influenced by multiple social factors and differ even among famers that produce under similar conditions. Aim: Identify social differences responsible for heterogeneity among smallholder farmers in four case study sites (CSS) in Dodoma and Morogoro in Tanzania. Assess how these differences affect farmers’ perspectives on 1) available resource bases, 2) livelihood activities, 3) crop priorities and 4) most important problems.

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