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Development of township enterprise and alleviation of the employment problem in rural China
Zhou, Zhang Y.; Dillon, John L.; Wan, Guang H. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 06 (1992) 3
In contrast to the situation in western countries at the time of their industrialization, it has been and still is impossible for rural labour in China to move to the urban sector for employment. For this and other reasons, including shortage of arable land and population growth, lack of...
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The social cost of labor in rural development: job creation benefits re-examined
Horbulyk, Theodore M. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 24 (2001) 2
Job creation effects are examined as they would apply to social analysis of rural development programming by public or private sector agencies. A synthesis and critique are provided of approaches to valuing the social opportunity cost of labor. These approaches vary according to whether or not...
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Spillover Effects of International Agricultural Research: CIMMYT-based Semi-Dwarf Wheats in Australia
Brennan, John P. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 03 (1989) 4
The spillover effects of agricultural research are of interest because research-induced supply shifts in non-target regions can reduce the benefits for producers in the target regions. The introduction of semi-dwarfing genes in wheat into Australia provides an example of spillover from the...
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Infrastructure and rural development: insights from a Grameen Bank village phone initiative in Bangladesh*
Bayes, Abdul - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 25 (2001) 2-3
The intention of the present paper is to evaluate the role of telecommunications within the contexts of rural development in general and of poverty reduction in particular. Bangladesh has been selected as a case study due to the uniqueness it displayed in an innovative program for expanded...
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Location and uptake: integrated household and GIS analysis of technology adoption and land use, with application to smallholder dairy farms in Kenya
Staal, S.J.; Baltenweck, I.; Waithaka, M.M.; deWolff, T.; … - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 27 (2002) 3
GIS-derived measures of location and space have increasingly been used in models of land use and ecology. However, they have made few inroads into the literature on technology adoption in developing countries, which continues to rely mainly on survey-derived information. Location, with all its...
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Market access by smallholder farmers in Malawi: implications for technology adoption, agricultural productivity and crop income
Zeller, Manfred; Diagne, Aliou; Mataya, Charles - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 19 (1998) 1-2
In Malawi, maize is the major crop and food staple. Given limited off-farm employment opportunities, much-needed increases in household income for improving food security must come from gains in agricultural productivity through better technology and more profitable crops. In the past, hybrid...
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Structures and processes required for research, higher education and technology transfer in the agricultural sciences: a policy appraisal
Whittemore, C.T. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 19 (1998) 3
Evidence is forwarded of a will for rationalisation of higher education, research and technology transfer processes …. Tertiary education institutions are proposed as the spine for reconstruction, but pre-requisite is a logical hierarchy of … information flow is sourced. There is strong mutually supportive efficiencies from education, research and extension emanating …
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Labor productivity measurement in Japanese agriculture, 1956-90
Kuroda, Yoshimi - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 12 (1995) 1
This paper investigates the factors responsible for a drastic decline in the growth rate of labor productivity of the agricultural sector for the 1956-90 period. This investigation is carried out by a newly devised procedure which decomposes the growth rate of labor productivity into (1) the...
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Differential human capital and structural evolution in agriculture
Rogers, John L. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 11 (1994) 1
The growth of market capitalism and the technological advances of the last two centuries underlie the relentless process of structural change in agriculture. Substantial occupational migration out of farming and geographical migration from rural to urban areas is a characteristic of most, if not...
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Labour-Related Structural Trends in South African Maize Production
Zyl, J. Van; Vink, N.; Fenyes, T. I. - In: Agricultural Economics of Agricultural Economists 01 (1987) 3
The substitution of capital goods, including new technology, for land and labour has played an important role and has influenced the structure of Sout African agriculture. Farm labour-related trends in the summer rainfall grain-producing area of South Africa are considered. The amount of labour...
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