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novel analytical approach to agricultural science, technology, and innovation that focuses on improving the efficiency with …
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–private partnerships contribute to reducing the cost of research, whether they add value to research by facilitating innovation, and …
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"The A stochastic frontier production function is used to estimate agricultural efficiency index. Then, controlling for household characteristics and other exogenous variables, the efficiency index is regressed on the probability of being sick. Estimation is performed using the treatment effect...
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"Malaria afflicts many people in the developing world, and due to its direct and indirect costs it has widespread impacts on growth and development. The global impact of malaria on human health, productivity, and general well-being is profound. Human activity, including agriculture, has been...
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"The rapidly changing nature of the global food and agriculture system suggests the need to rethink how innovation can … which they are a part. A more systems-oriented understanding of how innovation occurs in a society and economy is critical … agricultural innovation system, it is difficult for policymakers, investors, donors, and practitioners to promote policies and …
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"La innovación es de suma importancia para el desarrollo productivo en la agricultura Boliviana, por tratarse de un sector caracterizado por bajos niveles de innovación en cuanto a la incorporación de nueva tecnología y conocimiento en los procesos de producción, transformación y...
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"This paper describes how governments and philanthropic donors could drive innovation through a new kind of technology …
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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 …
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Despite a wide range of reform initiatives in agricultural extension in India in the past decades, the coverage of, access to, and quality of information provided to marginalized and poor farmers is uneven. This paper aims to ascertain why farmers are not accessing information and where...
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