This paper is a 1984 update on cost-effective microcomputer data collection, management, and analysis techniques for developing country applications.

This paper compiles a list magazines, journals, and newspapers helpful to agricultural scientists and other researchers in developing countries with timely information about microcomputers.

This paper is aimed primarily at researchers in developing countries who have little experience with computers and limited access to information about microcomputer hardware. It is an introduction to various components and features of microcomputers.

This paper includes instructional aids for teaching students, farmers, research and extension workers how to use the TI-59 programmable calculator.

This paper is intended to serve as a starting point for agricultural scientists and other researchers in developing countries in need of a citation database manager.

This report provides detailed information about comprehensive general statistical software and provides information on other statistical and related software of special interest to those using microcomputers to conduct socioeconomic data analysis.

In this paper, the price dynamics of a rice market are examined using dynamic programming techniques. The model is parameterised to the case of Bangladesh and thus represents the situation of a very poor country which has characteristically high price elasticity (due to income effects) and high...

This paper examines the efficacy of the current system of public foodgrains management and policies in promoting food security in the country. It argues that the system has outlived its usefulness, and that continuing with the same only stifles growth in foodgrains, with very little welfare...

This essay is one of 23 featured authors from around the world discussing the challenges and solutions to filling the global talent gap in agribusiness. www.ifama.org

Deteriorating food security status is primarily a local phenomenon resulting from failures in food systems and inadequate incomes. Technological advances in agriculture have led to declining long-term trends in food prices, which have assisted in improving diets. It is projected that in the...