risks of biotechnology products and "accident" costs to the society; increased predictability for a research organization of … research and development activities. Developing countries should balance these potential benefits with the tangible costs of … increase the research lag, production costs, transaction costs and marketing costs. Given the scarcity of human and physical …

, research and extension projects and programs are viewed as arenas in which social actors–village leaders, farmers, researchers …

risks of biotechnology products and "accident" costs to the society; increased predictability for a research organization of … research and development activities. Developing countries should balance these potential benefits with the tangible costs of … increase the research lag, production costs, transaction costs and marketing costs. Given the scarcity of human and physical …

agricultural production, consumption and trade, and resulted in significant agricultural productivity improvements. However, there … of this study is to measure and compare the levels and trends in agricultural productivity in transition countries with … Organization (FAO). This study employs a parametric distance function approach to measure Malmquist productivity index as well as …

This paper briefly presents the results of a total factor productivity (TFP) study of South African commercial … agriculture, for 1947-1997, and illustrates some potential pitfalls in rate of return to research (ROR) calculations. The lag …

increases in extension-schooling without commensurate improvements in research capacity did not improve productivity performance. …We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth between 1970 and 2005 and examine the … relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we …

This paper starts with the basic premise: that conventional measures of productivity growth - - -often used as a … productivity growth measure using activity analysis which integrates the externality/social output into a generalized productivity … productivity are biased upward when production of negative externalities (or bad) outputs is increasing. Conversely, this same …