Author: James ChapmanPublisher: IICA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Technological Change and Small Farms
Author: James ChapmanAgricultural research, technological change and small farmer participation
Author: Renato Augusto FredericoPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Production Efficiency and Technology for Small Farms
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Impact of Technology on the Future of the U.S. Farm
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Investigations and OversightPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Innovation Policy for Small Farmers in the Tropics
Author: Hans RuthenbergPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Written by the author of the classic study Farming Systems in the Tropics, this seminal work brings together ideas and materials collected during a lifetime of research on small holdings in the tropics. Focusing primarily on the impact of technical and institutional innovation on the development and economics of smallholder agriculture, the author discusses the availabilty of these innovations, the capacity of small farms to implement them, and their direct and indirect effects on farm production. This expert analysis will be invaluable for Third World policy makers, sxperts and advanced students in agricultural development, and workers in international and bilateral aid organizations.
Technical Change in the Small Farm Sector
Author: Publisher: IICA
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Category : Agricultural development projects
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Smaller Farmlands Can Yield More
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher:
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Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Technological Change and Social Relations of Production
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural innovations
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Technology and Social Change in Agriculture
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Book Arises Out Of A Seminar Organized By All India Kissan Sabha - Contains 15 Papers Which Seek To Analyse And Assess The Social Changes Brought About By New Technology In The Arena Of Agriculture. Eminent Persons Participated In The Seminar, The Papers Relate To Technological Changes - Right To Work, Land Reforms - Commercialization & Agriculture Among Other Subjects. Without Dust Jacket.
Agronomy for Development
Author: James SumbergPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1315284049
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Knowledge politics in development-oriented agronomy -- 2 On the movement of agricultural technologies: packaging, unpacking and situated reconfiguration -- 3 South-South cooperation and agribusiness contestations in irrigated rice: China and Brazil in Ghana -- 4 GM crops 'for Africa': contestation and knowledge politics in the Kenyan biosafety debate -- 5 Systems research in the CGIAR as an arena of struggle: competing discourses on the embedding of research in development -- 6 One step forward, two steps back in farmer knowledge exchange: 'scaling up' as Fordist replication in drag -- 7 When the solution became a problem: strategies in the reform of agricultural extension in Uganda -- 8 Sweet 'success': contesting biofortification strategies to address malnutrition in Tanzania -- 9 Crops in context: negotiating traditional and formal seed institutions -- 10 Laws of the field: rights and justice in development-oriented agronomy -- 11 A golden age for agronomy? -- References -- Index