Contrary to conventional wisdom that equates rural economies with agriculture, rural residents in developing countries …

pace of climate change, combined with global population and income growth, threatens food security everywhere. Agriculture … of climate change on agriculture are expected to be negative, threatening global food security. Populations in the … half of the economically active population in developing countries—2.5 billion people—relied on agriculture for its …

"The rapidly changing nature of the global food and agriculture system suggests the need to rethink how innovation can … contribute to developing-country agriculture. While scientific and technological changes in agriculture can help foster … to promoting dynamism, responsiveness, and competitiveness in developing-country agriculture and, ultimately, to …

and services. Since agriculture currently dominates Ethiopia's economy and employment, however, there is an issue as to … grow more rapidly than the agricultural sector. The slower growth of agriculture, its relative decline, concern about the … difficulty of modernizing agriculture and pessimism about the potentials for technological change in agriculture suggest to some …