adopt new agricultural technology and improved practices, and keep farm and household assets. It is equally important to …

little is known about how these opportunities can be effectively leveraged to promote pro-poor processes of rural innovation … smallholders' innovation processes. Case studies of smallholder innovation networks in 10 communities suggest that public sector … that create more space for market and civil society actors to participate in smallholder innovation networks." from Author …

and development (R&D), highlighting the need to facilitate farmers access to technology, markets, and the necessary … output per worker but also to accelerate technology adoption and total factor productivity (TFP) growth. According to the … appropriate technology hypothesis, advanced countries invent technologies that are compatible with their own factor mix, but these …

producing countries and the key constraint of the sector remains its lack of innovation. Current production technology in the … episode observed in Ghana's cocoa sector between 2002 and 2004. We look at the technology of production underlying the years … concerns about the incentives and policies required to promote and sustain technological innovation in the sector." from text …

impede the exchange of potentially pro-poor knowledge and technology. The study focuses on three key issues: whether public …–private partnerships contribute to reducing the cost of research, whether they add value to research by facilitating innovation, and …