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Targeting Agricultural Research and Extension for Food Security and Poverty Alleviation: A Case Study of Fish Farming in Central Cameroon

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This study compares over five years of participatory on-farm research, market access, profitability, farming systems productivity and economic sustainability on 100 small-scale farms in Central Cameroon. It concludes that to achieve either food security or poverty alleviation, investments need to be made in improving the availability of quality technical assistance to targeted farmers and finding means of reducing social conflict arising from perceived inequalities in the accrual of the benefits of development.