Fliegel, Frederick C. (author), Kivlin, Joseph E. (author), and Shingi, Prakash M. (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1979
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05226
Notes:
INTERPAKS, Urbana, IL: Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Illinois, 1979. (Staff paper, series S, rural sociology no. 79 S-12). 29 p., Examines the long-run effects on the diffusion of agricultural innovations, especially a key question in adoption and development research: Does a higher level of adoption of improved technology contribute to greater or lesser equality in distribution of social and economic "rewards" over time? Examination of this question is based on data drawn from interviews with 228 farm operators in Maharashtra, India. The first interview took place in 1967 and the follow-up interview in 1973. Analysis is focused on changes in equality of reward distribution among them over the six years. Results of the data indicate increased inequality in volume of production over the six years, not necessarily attributable to differences in utilization of agricultural technology. Inequalities in material well-being have decreased. Concludes that for this sample, and in the absence of radically improved production technology, the impact of induced change in production inputs and practices is such as to decrease the inequality in rewards over time. Analysis also covers access to information through extension contact and the mass media.
Lindstrom, David (author / Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL) and Professor of Rural Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1964-03
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 42 Document Number: B04904
Notes:
Urbana, IL : University of Illinois, Office of A.I.D. Projects, 1964. 27 p. (Special Publication No. 5)
Alonge, Adewale J. (author / Department of Agricultural Education and Studies, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07940
Notes:
abstracted from Ph.D. thesis, 1993; search through volume, In: Jacquelyn Deeds and Demetria Ford, eds. Summary of Research in Extension (1992-1993). Mississippi State, MS: Department of Agricultural Education and Experimental Statistics, Mississippi State University, July 1994. p. 114
Gutkind, Efraim (author) and Zilberman, David (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07435
Notes:
INTERPAKS, Berkeley, CA: Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, University of California, 1980. (working paper no. 159.) 18 p., Empirical works found that the rate of diffusion of new technology is an S-shaped function of time. The prevailing theoretical explanation of these observations treats diffusion of a continuous process of imitation or communication among adopters. Introduces an alternative model for the adoption of new processes by industry based on microeconomic theory. Demonstrates that S-shaped diffusion curves can be explained by profit maximation, increasing returns to scale of the new technology, the dynamics of input prices, and the size distribution of forms within an industry. The analysis can be applied to the diffusion of new technology among agricultural firms.
Njoku, Jude E. (author / Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1990
Published:
Nigeria
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06439
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Morrilton, AR : Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development, 1990. 17 p. (African Rural Social Science Series, Research Report Number 10)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05231
Notes:
INTERPAKS, Minneapolis, MN: Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, June 1973. (staff paper P73-16). 48 p., The design of a successful agricultural development strategy involves a unique combination of technical and institutional change. It involves technical innovations capable of generating substantial new income flows. It also involves an adaptive response on the part of cultural, political, and economic institutions to realize the growth potential opened up by the new technical opportunities. This paper attempts to show how the addition of an induces innovation perspective can enrich our understanding of the process of technology transfer in agricultural development. It also attempts to extend the induced innovation perspective to the process of institutional transfer.
