Staudacher, Philipp http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8314-1519
Brugger, Curdin http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8586-4171
Winkler, Mirko S. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7387-3863
Stamm, Christian http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5888-6535
Farnham, Andrea http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0830-0927
Mubeezi, Ruth http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1377-0106
Eggen, Rik I. L. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2593-9957
Günther, Isabel http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1601-0495
Funding for this research was provided by:
Eawag
Swiss TPH
Article History
Received: 29 March 2021
Accepted: 26 July 2021
First Online: 1 September 2021
Declarations
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: All study materials were approved by the Higher Degrees, Research and Ethics Committee (HDREC) of Makerere University in Uganda (HDREC 718). The Ethical Board of the Ethikkommission Nordwest- und Zentralschweiz in Switzerland (EKNZ-REQ-2019-00850) declared this research does not need approval.Agro-input dealers, and where applicable their customers, consented to participate in the research for the KAP interview, the sale observation and the shop observation. Due to the nature of the method applied, agro-input dealers could not consent to the mystery shopping. When agro-input dealers were approached after the mystery shopping and did not consent to the KAP interview, or if they were not available for a KAP interview, we did not evaluate the data obtained during the mystery shopping. Farmers who pretended to be customers during the mystery shopping were thoroughly briefed and consented to their covert action before implementation.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.