Agriculture renaissance means the renewed understanding and recommitment to the fundamental role of agriculture in the development process. Operationally it implies different approaches at the country level based on the stage of development. For the least developed countries of the world, it...

Over the past half a century developing regions, with the exception of Sub-Saharan Africa, have seen labor-saving technologies adopted at unprecedented levels. Intensification of production systems created power bottlenecks around the land preparation, harvesting and threshing operations....

Considering the deep pessimism about the limits to growth that prevailed throughout much of the 60s and early 70s, the rapid growth in food crop productivity and food supplies triggered by the Green Revolution was a remarkable achievement. The driving force behind this success was the...

This study examines the determinants of a firm's decision to utilize a dividend reinvestment plan (“DRP”) and shareholder participation rates under the Australian dividend imputation regime over the period 1995–2009. A DRP enables managers to increase the dividend payout and distribute...

Evidence from farm level and experimental data from the Philippines indicates a trend towards stagnation and/or decline in irrigated rice yield when intensively cultivated, even under scientific management on experiment station. Given current rice technology, there is a minimal yield gap between...

Water and land development, use, and distribution has played a vital role in agricultural development in Pakistan. The country's canal irrigation system is the largest contiguous irrigation system in the world—consisting of 40,000 miles of canals and over 80,000 water courses, field channels...

It is widely believed that the Green Revolution had very little effect in unfavourable or marginal environments. Many researchers have been concerned about the slow progress of technical change in marginal environments and the level of research resources allocated to these areas. This paper...