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Technological clusters in Brazilian agriculture: Production and challenges
Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2017
This study aims to analyze the evolution of Brazilian agricultural production from the 1960s to now. We will summarize some of the main findings from the historical view of Brazilian agriculture development. The arguments should rest here on how technical change and the national system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012234236
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Information and communication technology, agricultural profitability, and child labor in rural Peru
Beuermann, Diether W. - 2013
We estimate the impact of access to information and communication technology on agricultural profitability and child labor among isolated villages in rural Peru. We exploit the timing of an intervention that provided at least one public (satellite) payphone to 6,296 villages that did not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011303813
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Blockchain in Agriculture
Potts, Jason - 2019
Agriculture is the production of food, fibre and data. The data attests to the qualities and properties of the food and fibre, and is therefore economically valuable. Yet while data is cheap to add, it is often costly to verify. In consequence, a significant percentage of the final cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869260
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Inappropriate Technology : Evidence from Global Agriculture
Moscona, Jacob; Sastry, Karthik - 2021
elsewhere. This paper studies how environmental differences between frontier innovators and the rest of the world shape the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219358
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Land, Climate, Energy, Agriculture and Development in the Sahel : Synthesis Paper of Case Studies Under the Sudano-Sahelian Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Secu...
Mirzabaev, Alisher; Sakketa, Tekalign; Sylla, … - 2021
This paper synthesizes a set of national case studies conducted in the Sahelian countries during 2019-2020 as a … change and energy in the Sahel. The current synthesis paper highlights their major findings and provides crosscutting and … cross-regional analytical conclusions. First, the synthesis paper explores current trends in the Sahel region on land use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013240860
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Mali - Land, Climate, Energy, Agriculture and Development : A Study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for Regional Development, Jobs, and Food Security
Coulibaly, Ousmane Nafolo - 2021
Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource management especially land and water together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241028
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Innovation, agricultural productivity and sustainability in Viet Nam
Gray, Emily - 2022
This report assesses Viet Nam’s agricultural sector through the lens of the OECD Agro-food Productivity-Sustainability-Resilience (PSR) Policy Framework. Agriculture has played an important role in Viet Nam’s remarkable economic growth over the past thirty years. In the 1990s, government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013278612
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Productivity Growth and Convergence in Agriculture and Manufacturing
Martin, Will J. - 2016
maintain high rates of productivity growth.This paper - a product of Trade, Development Research Group - is part of a larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749223
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Dissemination of Knowledge in Agriculture : Where Does Old ICT Stand in Disseminating Knowledge Among Farmers?
Das, Bibhunandini - 2021
This paper analyses the role of old information and communication technologies (ICTs) in disseminating knowledge in … Indian agriculture. Based on the National Sample Survey data, the paper has verified the diffusion of old ICTs among the farm … include both animal husbandry and fishery. To examine, the knowledge dissemination in agricultural sector, the paper has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314035
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Mali - land, climate, energy, agriculture and development : a study in the Sudano-Sahel Initiative for regional development, jobs, and food security
Coulibaly, Ousmane - 2021
Mali is a Sub-Saharan African country with 19.1 million people. Almost half of this population lives in poverty, due to the dysfunction of activity sectors (agriculture, energy, education, employment, services, etc.). Natural resource management especially land and water together with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012421112