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Chapter 69 Population Growth and Trends in Food Production and Consumption in the CWANA Region
Shideed, Kamil H.; Shomo, Farouk; Aw-Hassan, Aden - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3531-3570). 2010
Many of the financial and social challenges that face Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) can be addressed through more efficient and sustainable use of arable land and water resources. In recent years improvements in land and water use have come from an agricultural sector that is...
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Chapter 68 An Assessment of the Impact of Agricultural Research in South Asia Since the Green Revolution
Hazell, Peter B.R. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 4, (pp. 3469-3530). 2010
agriculture now plays a relatively small part in the livelihoods of many marginal farmers in South Asia, questions arise about the … many of the environmental problems associated with agriculture, with a demonstrated potential for favorable impacts in …
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Chapter 4 The agricultural innovation process: Research and technology adoption in a changing agricultural sector
Sunding, David; Zilberman, David - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 1, part A , …, (pp. 207-261). 2001
the economics of technology adoption in agriculture. Threshold models, diffusion models, and the influence of risk …
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Chapter 49 Private Agricultural Research
Pray, Carl E.; Fuglie, Keith O.; Johnson, Daniel K.N. - In: Handbook of agricultural economics : volume 3: …, (pp. 2605-2640). 2007
This chapter serves to assess the quantity and impact of private agricultural research in developing countries, alongside the policies which affect that research. To provide context, an outline of the history, size and structure of private research presents data on research expenditures by...
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Digital opportunities for trade in the agriculture and food sectors
Jouanjean, Marie-Agnes - 2019
How are new opportunities to create and share information shaping the digital transformation of the agriculture and … global agriculture and food value chain, and looks at how changes brought about by digital technologies can influence who …, it is not only changes in the agriculture and food sector from digital technologies that matters, but also the digital …
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Impact of public research and development and extension on agricultural productivity in China from 1990 to 2013
Deng, Haiyan; Jin, Yanhong; Pray, Carl E.; Hu, Ruifa; … - In: China economic review : an international journal 70 (2021), pp. 1-15
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Persistence Pays : U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Benefits from Public R&D Spending
Alston, Julian M. - 2010
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The value of advice : evidence from mobile phone-based agricultural extension
Cole, Shawn; Fernando, A. Nilesh - 2012
Mobile phones promise to bring the ICT revolution to previously unconnected populations. A two- year study evaluates an innovative voice-based ICT advisory service for smallholder cotton farmers in India, demonstrating significant demand for, and trust in, new information. Farmers substantially...
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Chat Over Coffee? Diffusion of Agronomic Practices and Market Spillovers in Rwanda
Duflo, Esther; Keniston, Daniel; Suri, Tavneet; Zipfel, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Agricultural extension programs often train a few farmers and count on diffusion through social networks for the innovation to spread. However, if markets are imperfectly integrated, this may also inflict negative externalities. In a two-step experiment of an agronomy training program among...
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The emergence of a global agricultural research system : the role of the Agricultural Research and Extension Group (ESDAR)
Petit, Michel - 1996
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