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Training and Visit (T&V) Extension vs. Farmer field School: The Indonesian Experience

Resosudarmo, Budy; Yamazaki, Satoshi - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011

For several decades the effective and efficient dissemination of new agricultural knowledge among farmers in developing … (FFS) Program, during the 1990s. The main difference between these two programs is that, while farmers were instructed what … to do under the T&V program, the FFS program encouraged and stimulated farmers to make their own decisions. This paper …

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Quo Vadis? Energy Consumption and Technological Innovation in China's Economic Growth

Zhang, ZhongXiang; Jin, Wei - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

Whether China maintains its business-as-usual energy-intensive growth trajectory or changes to a sustainable development alternative has significant implications for global energy and climate governance. This paper is motivated to theoretically examine ChinaÕs potential transition from its...

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On the Mechanism of International Technology Diffusion for Energy Technological Progress

Zhang, ZhongXiang; Jin, Wei - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2014

International diffusion of energy-saving technologies has received considerable attention in recent energy and climate economics studies. As a helpful methodological complement to the existing large-scale CGE/IAMÐbased modelling for energy and climate policy studies, this paper contributes to a...

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Modeling International Trends in Energy Efficiency and Carbon Emissions

Stern, David I. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

This study uses a stochastic production frontier to model trends in energy efficiency over time in a panel of 85 countries. No a priori structure is imposed on technological change over time though differences in the level of technology across countries are modeled as a stochastic function of...

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INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND THE BRITISH AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

Ang, James B.; Banerjee, Rajabrata; Madsen, Jakob B. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2010

Theory, historiography and empirical evidence suggest that agriculture is the key to economic development. This paper examines the extent to which productivity advances in British agriculture in the period 1620-1850 were driven by technological progress. Measuring technology by patents and new...

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Research and Productivity in Thai Agriculture

Suphannachart, Waleerat; Warr, Peter - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2009

This paper examines the impact that publicly funded agricultural research has on productivity in crop production within Thailand. It tests empirically the two hypotheses that, first, publicly funded research and development (R&D) in crop production is a significant determinant of total factor...

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Communal Land Ownership and Agricultural Development: Overcoming Technical Efficiency Constraints Among Fiji’s Indigenous Sugercane Growers

Kingi, Tanira T.; Kompas, Tom F. - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2005

Communal land ownership is frequently considered a constraint on farm productivity as farmers endeavour to balance … farmers in these co-operative farming groups. It also finds that there were improvements among inexperienced farmers who …

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The Effects of Market Reform on Cotton Production Efficiency. The Case of Tajikistan.

Tashrifov, Yusuf - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2005

This study examines the effects of market reform on the agriculture sector of Tajikistan. It investigates the level and determinants of technical efficiency for a sample of cotton growing regions in Tajikistan. Using unbalanced panel data of 11 years covering the transition period 1992-2002, 34...

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Time-Frequency Dynamics of Biofuels-Fuels-Food System

Vacha, Lukas; Janda, Karel; Kristoufek, Ladislav; … - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013

For the first time, we apply the wavelet coherence methodology on biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel) and a wide range of related commodities (gasoline, diesel, crude oil, corn, wheat, soybeans, sugarcane and rapeseed oil). This way, we are able to investigate dynamics of correlations in time and...

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Co-movements of Ethanol Related Prices: Evidence from Brazil and the USA

Kristoufek, Ladislav; Janda, Karel; Zilberman, David - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2015

We use the wavelet coherence methodology to investigate relations between prices of ethanol and its feedstocks. Our continuous wavelet framework allows for discovering price connections and their evolution in both time and frequency domain in the most important ethanol markets – Brazil and the...

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