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2. Agricultural technology in Sub-Saharan Africa: a workshop on research issues
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gnaegy Suzanna (author / Winrock International) and Anderson, Jock R. (author / Winrock International)
- Format:
- Publication
- Publication Date:
- 1991-06-30
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11012
- Notes:
- World Bank Discussion Paper 126. Washington, D.C. 158 pages., Studies from a workshop. Includes evidence that research and extension had contributed to a decline in agricultural production. "There is a broad consensus about the many factors that have contributed to failures to boost land and labor productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Both technological options and agroecological and socioeconomic circumstances in this vast region are diverse, thus creating a complex matrix of impacts and explanations. The central explanation is that research and development activities, whether public or private, national or international, have produced innovations that farmers find variously unprofitable, too risky, or impossible to implement in a timely and useful fashion. These problems lead, in turn, to often declining agricultural productivity and a deteriorating agricultural resource base, particularly of soil and forest resources. Stepping back further from the farmers themselves to the institutions that are supposed to have assisted, the difficulties are several including the poor (often irrelevant for resource-poor farmers) siting of much past experimental and testing endeavor, inadequate and temporally inconsistent staff and budget support for national research and extension organizations.
3. Technological change and commercialization in agriculture : the effect on the poor
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Binswanger, Hans P. (author), von Braun, Joachim (author), and Binswanger: Chief, Agricultural Operations Division, Country Department II, World Bank; von Braun: Director, Food Consumption and Nutrition Policy Program, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07773
- Journal Title:
- World Bank Research Observer
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 (1) : 57-80
- Notes:
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4. Technology as knowledge: an empirical affirmation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1991-09
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18330
- Journal Title:
- Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion, Utilization
- Journal Title Details:
- 13(1) : 36-48
- Notes:
- Using the Green Revolution in Indian agriculture as an empirical example, the author shows the epistemic significance of technology as a form of human knowledge created for doing things and solving problems.