Download or read book Institutional Factors Affecting the Generation and Diffusion of Agricultural Technology written by Vernon W. Ruttan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working paper analysing institutional factors affecting agricultural research and agriculture technology generation and diffusion - elaborates similarities in supply and demand sources for, and interaction between technological and institutional innovations, presents a model for analysing the impact of resources and cultural endowments on institutional and technological change, discusses research centre organisation and cost benefit analysis, and includes case studies. Graphs and references.
Download or read book Generation and Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations written by Iftikhar Ahmad and published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Generation and Diffusion of Agricultural Technology written by Stephen D. Biggs and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Knowledge Generation and Technical Change written by Steven Wolf and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge generation and transfer mechanisms are being transformed in important and controversial ways. Investment in research and development has increased in response to recognition that scientific productivity is tightly connected to economic dynamism. Patent protection has been expanded in order to stimulate higher levels of private investment. Intellectual property rights held by public organizations and researchers are now increasingly transferred to private organizations to accelerate the diffusion and enhance the value of knowledge produced by public agencies and universities. Additionally, new institutions such as university offices of technology transfer, venture capital markets, and a variety of consortia in knowledge-intensive industries are being established throughout the United States and in other parts of the world. These changes have led to a repositioning of the state in systems of innovation and an increase in the proprietary character of technical information. The purpose of this book is to review and analyze i) contemporary transitions in agricultural knowledge generation and extension arrangements from an empirical perspective, and ii) emerging and contradictory perspectives as to how knowledge systems can be assessed effectively. The authors aim to provide the reader with a better understanding of the implications of new biotechnologies and new intellectual property rights regimes on public-private relations in science, the extent to which benefits from scientific knowledge are being appropriated by private sector actors, the diversity and possible outcomes of privatization initiatives in extension, and prospects for public goods production and ecological sustainability given contemporary trends. The book presents contrasting views on the degree of complementarity and substitution between private and public sector investments in research and extension. Recognizing that the labels `public' and `private' are incomplete and at times misleading descriptions of the structure and function of coordinating bodies in social systems, the analyses highlight ways in which public and private spaces and modes of functioning combine. In addition to illustrating a broad range of analytic methodologies useful for studying organizational questions in knowledge systems, the authors identify the implications of a range of past and potential institutional innovations.
Download or read book Rural Development written by International Labour Office and published by International Labour Organization. This book was released on 1991 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entries in English and various other languages.
Download or read book Agricultural Development And Nutrition written by Arnold Pacey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an expose of the many food consumption-related problems which need to be considered alongside agricultural production issues in development. It examines factors that determine the degree to which people have access to food and can assimilate its nutrients.
Download or read book Facing the Technological Challenge written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricultural Technology Generation and Diffusion written by Stephen Biggs and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uneven Development in the Third World written by A. S. Bhalla and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-06-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defines uneven development in China and India in terms of development strategies and their outcomes. Three types of strategies are discussed - heavy industrialization, sectoral/regional balance, and economic liberalization.
Download or read book Total Factor Productividty Growth in Agriculture written by A. F. D. ávila and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this chapter we compute measures of total factor productivity (TFP) growth for developing countries and then contrast TFP growth with technological capital indexes. In developing these indexes, we incorporate schooling capital to yield two new indexes: Invention-Innovation Capital and Technology Mastery. We find that TFP performance is strongly related to technological capital and that technological capital is required for TFP and cost reduction growth. Investments in technological capital require long-term (20- to 40-year) investments, which are typically made by governments and aid agencies and are the only viable escape route from mass poverty.
Download or read book International Labour Documentation written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America written by Alain de Janvry and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1981-12-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America epitomizes the emerging tradition of conflict-oriented approaches to problems of economic, agricultural, and rurual development in Third World nations. Drawing on firsthand observations of the agrarian crises in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and ten other Latin-American nations, Alain de Janvry effectively blends Marxist theories of world-wide economic development with empirical analysis and policy recommendations. De Janvry offers both a careful examination of the conditions of underdevelopment in Latin America and detailed discussions of the achievements and limits of technological change, land reform, integrated rural development, and basic-needs program. The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America is written for both practitioners and academicians. Students of economic development will benefit especially from its intelligent explication of conflict-oriented theory and technique.
Download or read book Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development written by Franz W. Gatzweiler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Green Technologies Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 2156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Green Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications assembles the most up-to-date collection of research results and recent discoveries in environmental and green technology. This comprehensive anthology covers a wide range of topics, i
Download or read book Agricultural Policies in Developing Countries written by Frank Ellis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-01-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students taking courses related to agricultural policy, agricultural economics, or rural development in developing countries.
Download or read book Technological Change Production Organisation and Rural Women in Kenya written by V. Venturas-Dias and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working paper on relationships between choice of technology, division of labour, and the social status and low income of rural women in Kenya - covers land tenure, farm size, rural employment, sex discrimination, etc., concentrating on self employed heads of household, and recommends more educational opportunity and technological change instead of special intermediate technology for women. Bibliography pp. 48 to 54.
Download or read book Uneven Development in the Third World written by A. Bhalla and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-11-26 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book defines uneven development in terms of development strategies and their outcomes. Drawing on case-studies from China and India, three types of strategy are discussed: heavy industrialisation, sectoral/regional balance, and economic liberalisation. Also three kinds of outcomes are examined: growth of output and productivity, income, consumption and class inequalities in three spatial dimensions - intra-regional, inter-regional and rural-urban. Furthermore, access to and utilisation of technology, health and educational services are compared.
