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Table 1 Demographic information from PPB and interview participants in Northern Province, Rwanda

From: Farmer knowledge identifies a competitive bean ideotype for maize–bean intercrop systems in Rwanda

Agroecology

Low

Mid

High

Total

Elevation

m.a.s.l.

1671

1805

2059

Farmer association

Code

LI

LL

ME

MN

MP

HK

HU

7

Trials planted

#

2

2

2

1

2

2

2

13

Interviews

#

11

7

9

11

3

6

12

59

Participants in PPB

#

13

 

13

 

13

20

 

59

Demographic information

Mean

Age

Years

48

58

48

45

31

38

47

46 (13)

Education

Years

5

1

4

6

4

3

6

4.3 (3.0)

Poverty class*

1–6

4

4

3

3

4

3

4

3.3 (0.9)

Household <18

#

5

4

6

6

4

6

6

5.4 (2.3)

  1. In some agroecologies, the PPB activities were combined at one trial location. For the demographic information, the values are averages for each farmer association site. Overall total and mean with standard deviation in parenthesis are presented. * The Rwandan government developed six poverty categories that range from (1) ‘abject poverty’ to (6) ‘the money rich.’ Farmer association codes are confidential according to Internal Review Board policies
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