Aryal, Jeetendra Prakash http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9128-5739
Sapkota, Tek Bahadur http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5311-0586
Krupnik, Timothy J.
Rahut, Dil Bahadur http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7505-5271
Jat, Mangi Lal
Stirling, Clare M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
CCAFS (NA)
BMFG (NA)
USAID (NA)
Article History
Received: 16 January 2021
Accepted: 13 April 2021
First Online: 13 May 2021
Declarations
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: This study is based on survey methods involving interviewing farmers to answer questions about their socioeconomic and farming activities. Like all socioeconomic surveys (or any data collection that involves collecting data from family or community representatives) the Institutional Research Ethics Committee (IREC) of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) classified it as low risk and approved the study. Entire research methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations issued by CIMMYT institutional research ethics committee (IREC).
: Each questionnaire of this study had a front page section that required informed consent for interview before the interview could proceed. Interviewers were trained and under instructions to read aloud the consent statement to each interviewee before the interview could advance. Participants were informed that they were under no obligation to answer any questions, or they could stop the interview at any time, without giving any reasons and ask that any partial data recorded be removed from the records. This way, the survey was consistent with CIMMYT-IREC policies and those generally applied in low-risk social science research.
: Before the interview could proceed, we obtained informed consent from the participant that the data will be analyzed and a paper will be published. No personal information will be shared and published. This way, the survey was consistent with CIMMYT-IREC policies and those generally applied in low-risk social science research.
: The authors declare no competing interests.