provision of these services by strengthening accountability. The study paid special attention to the gender dimension of service …

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 …

technology might not generate rivalry among its users. By contrast, excludability is certainly a characteristic of this kind 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 … adoption is discouraging though may be linked to the limited profitability of technology adoption in the short-run. …

"Much of the technology development for bioenergy to date has been geared toward competing with cheap fossil fuels …