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This research was undertaken to understand gender issues on the distribution of, access to, and control over major assets of rice-farming households as well as the effects of technologies promoted by an Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) project in selected villages in eastern Uttar...
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income from irrigated crops. Results from sales-monitoring data show that women purchase less than 10 percent of the pumps …, with men making major decisions on high-income crops such as tomatoes and women having relatively more autonomy on crops …
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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 …
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. HarvestPlus expects to contribute to the reduction in micronutrient deficiency among women and children in rural areas of … reducing inadequate micronutrient intake among women and children in different agricultural and socioeconomic contexts in which …
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Technological advances developed through R&D have supplied the world with not only more food, but better food. This report looks at issues raised by this changing environment for agricultural productivity, agricultural R&D, and natural resource management.
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technology might not generate rivalry among its users. By contrast, excludability is certainly a characteristic of this kind of …
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indicates that female-headed households, households with higher proportions of women, and households with higher levels of … technologies may be necessary to ensure technology diffusion throughout communities. This information may be taken as an indicator … in the context of land management. The limited impact of agriculture and environment focused organizations on technology …
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"Much of the technology development for bioenergy to date has been geared toward competing with cheap fossil fuels …
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Agricultural Technology to Improve Diet Quality and Nutrition," organized by the International Food Policy Research Institute …
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