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Author : Marcel Fafchamps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040443751
Author : Marcel Fafchamps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : WISC:89031391535
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : LCCN:85980784
Author : Marcel Fafchamps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040443694
ILO pub-WEP pub-JASPA pub. Case study of agricultural employment, labour utilization, labour productivity and use of agricultural technology on small farms in Northern Nigeria - describes the survey area; looks at family size, division of labour by age and sexual division of labour, agricultural income and household consumption; considers time budget for farming, leisure and income generating activities; examines effects of technological innovations, macro- economic conditions and agricultural policies. Bibliography, graphs, statistical tables.
Author : Kodwo Ewusi,Jobs and Skills Programme for Africa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : 9221050416
Author : Louis De Swardt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034105275
Author : Keith Fuglie,Madhur Gautam,Aparajita Goyal,William F. Maloney
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464814297
Back cover blurb Rising agricultural productivity has driven improvements in living standards for millennia. Today, redoubling that effort in developing countries is critical to reducing extreme poverty, ensuring food security for an increasing global population, and adapting to changes in climate. This volume presents fresh analysis on global trends and sources of productivity growth in agriculture and offers new perspectives on the drivers of that growth. It argues that gains from the reallocation of land and labor are not as promising as believed, so policy needs to focus more on the generation and dissemination of new technologies, which requires stepping up national research efforts. Yet, in many of the poorest nations, a serious research spending gap has emerged precisely at the time when the challenges faced by agriculture are intensifying. The book focuses on how this problem can be redressed in the public sector, as well as on reforms aimed at mobilizing new private sector actors and value chains, particularly creating a better enabling environment, reforming trade regulations, introducing new products, and strengthening intellectual property rights. On the demand side, the book examines what recent research reveals about policies to reduce the barriers impeding smallholder farmers from adopting new technologies. Harvesting Prosperity is the fourth volume of the World Bank Productivity Project, which seeks to bring frontier thinking on the measurement and determinants of productivity to global policy makers. “As rightly argued by the authors, growth in agricultural productivity is the essential instrument to promote development in low-income agriculture-based countries. Achieving this requires research and development, upgrading of universities, reinforcement of farmer capacities, removal of constraints to adoption, and the development of inclusive value chains with interlinked contracts. As important, such efforts also need to be placed within a context of comprehensive agricultural, rural, and structural transformations. However, in many countries implementation of the requisite policies has been lagging. This book, with contributions from many top experts in the field, provides the most up-to-date presentation of this argument and explains in detail how to successfully put its ideas into practice. Governments, the private sector, and civil society organizations need to study it carefully to turn the promise of agriculture for development into a reality.“ Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet Professors of the Graduate School, University of California at Berkeley
Author : Benin, Samuel
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780896298811
Agricultural Productivity in Africa: Trends, Patterns, and Determinants presents updated and new analyses of land, labor, and total productivity trends in African agriculture. It brings together analyses of a unique mix of data sources and evaluations of public policies and development projects to recommend ways to increase agricultural productivity in Africa. This book is timely in light of the recent and ongoing growth recovery across the continent. The good news is that agricultural productivity in Africa increased at a moderate rate between 1961 and 2012, although there are variations in the rate of growth in land, labor, and total factor productivities depending on country and region. Differences in input use and capital intensities in agricultural production in the various farming systems and agricultural productivity zones also affect advancements in technology. One conclusion based on the book’s research findings derives from the substantial spatial variation in agricultural productivity. For areas with similar agricultural productivity growth trends and factors, what works well in one area can be used as the basis for formulating best-fit, location-specific agricultural policies, investments, and interventions in similar areas. This finding along with others will be of particular interest to policy- and decisionmakers.
Author : Setotaw Ferede Tesema
Publisher : Cuvillier Verlag
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783867270632
Author : Franz W. Gatzweiler,Joachim von Braun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319257181
The aim of the book is to present contributions in theory, policy and practice to the science and policy of sustainable intensification by means of technological and institutional innovations in agriculture. The research insights re from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The purpose of this book is to be a reference for students, scholars and practitioners inthe field of science and policy for understanding and identifying agricultural productivity growth potentials in marginalized areas.
Author : Calestous Juma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190237257
This book argues that Africa can feed itself in a generation and help contribute to global food security despite its history of persistent food shortages and the rising threat of climate change. To achieve this, the continent must harness scientific and technological advances, invest in infrastructure, foster higher technical training, and create regional markets. It must also foster a new crop of entrepreneurial leaders dedicated to the continent's economic improvement. This new edition provides ideas on how to place agriculture at the center of the continent's long-term economic transformation. It demonstrates how policy coordination can help realize agriculture's full potential as a motherboard for other economic activities. Incorporating lessons from academia, government, civil society, and private industry, The New Harvest outlines how African countries can work together at regional levels to generate new knowledge and resources, harness technological advancement, encourage entrepreneurship, increase agricultural output, create markets, and improve overall economic performance.
Author : Guy Blaise Nkamleu
Publisher : Nova Science Pub Incorporated
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 162618559X
During the past decades, the performance of the agricultural sector in Africa and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been distressing. Rapid annual population growth has led to declining per-capita food production and consumption levels and incomes have not risen fast enough to permit market imports to offset the decline. More alarming, the prognosis for the immediate future is quite bleak. The recent food crisis has again drawn attention to the African tragedy and exposed the fragility of sub-Saharan agricultural and economic progress. Though some of the effects are no longer visible, the food crisis is still a sword of Damocles hanging over Africas head. Africa has experienced food crisis in the past and there is no reason to believe that there will be no more food crisis in the future, for its root causes have not been addressed: technological progress and productivity growth. This book explores the missing links in the technology transfer segment of the innovation-diffusion-utilisation complex. The text also critically reviews the current state of knowledge and research, examines the main drivers of technology adoption in African agriculture, and explores the causes of success and failure in technology dissemination.
Author : International Labour Office
Publisher : International Labour Organization
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9221077462
Author : Hupenyu Allan Mupambwa,Adornis Dakarai Nciizah,Patrick Nyambo,Binganidzo Muchara,Ndakalimwe Naftal Gabriel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811667718
This book provides a synthesis of current agricultural research in Africa with the aim of presenting evidence based information that can be directly applied into improving the African smallholder farmers’ food security. It presents positive scientific research that has been undertaken in Africa, in simpler terms, thus driving the research for development agenda contributing to the attainment of SDG 2. Numerous research that targets resource poor African smallholder farmers has been published, yet the region faces very low productivity levels. This lack of translation from research to food security and increased agricultural incomes is due to the poor uptake of scientific research by farmers, which is partly due to poor presentation of this body of knowledge into simpler forms that extension workers and farmers can directly adopt. Therefore, this book offers research information in an easy, digestible and application oriented style, so as to enable transformation of the African agricultural sector by effectively driving agricultural productivity in Africa. This book is of interest to African extension workers, who will translate the simplified knowledge into lessons that can be useful to smallholder farmers. The book is also beneficial for policy makers as well as academics, researchers and other science based professionals.
Author : Iftikhar Ahmed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000648768
First published in 1985, Technology and Rural Women synthesizes the fragmented empirical evidence and the wide range of theoretical approaches on the effects of modernisation on women in the developing world. Using a multi-disciplinary methodology, empirical and sectoral overviews, and country case studies, it draws together the literature to clarify the issues and the policies. The book begins with a conceptual overview and analyses the applicability of traditional theories of technological change and impact on gender based distributional questions. It proceeds to compare the African and Asian experience, examines the African situation regionally, and then as a set of four country case studies. The authors find that the imperfections of rural factor markets have contributed to women’s concentration in labour intensive sectors, marked by low productivity and low returns. Biases in the agrarian structure and the extension services are largely responsible for the Institutionalisation of discrimination against women. Finally, the volume identifies the social, economic, and technical constraints to the diffusion of technologies relevant to rural women’s tasks. In the final chapter the book’s analysis is further refined and extended, so that its conclusions to both theory and policy making are clearly brought out, and areas of future research identified. This book is an essential read for students and scholars of labour economics, women’s studies and economics in general.