Identifying and evaluating farmer deviations from steps recommended for hermetic postharvest storage of beans in northern Mozambique

Despite the fact of calls for studies to identify and assess the effects of user deviations from recommended innovation-practices disseminated to farmers in developing-nation contexts, such research remains rare. This study answers that call by drawing on prior research—which two years earlier had trained farmers in northern Mozambique in an 8-step, improved postharvest bean storage protocol using jerrycans—to investigate deviations...