**Author details**

Kelvin Mulungu1† and John N. Ng'ombe2,3\*

1 Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

2 Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

3 Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA

\*Address all correspondence to: ngombe@okstate.edu

† Senior authorship is not implied.

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