Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17326
Notes:
A paper presented at the 18th International Conference of Agricultural Economists., Pages 39-55 in Bruce L. Greenshields and Margot A. Bellamy (eds), Rural development: growth and equity. International Association of Agricultural Economists Occasional Paper No. 3. Gower Publishing Company Limited, England. 312 pages.
Onduru, Davies (author), De Jager, Andre (author), Gachimibi, Louis (author), Muchena, Fred (author), Gachini, Gituii Njeru (author), and Van Beek, Christy (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Kenya
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01263
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Pages 278-296 in Pascal C. Sanginga, Ann Waters-Bayer, Susan Kaaria, Jemimah Njuki and Chesha Wettasinha (Eds.), Innovation Africa: enriching farmers' livelihoods. Earthscan, London, England. 405 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25445
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Pages 277-283 in Maximo Torero and Joachim von Braun (eds.), Information and communication technologies for development and poverty reduction: the potential of telecommunications. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 362 pages.
Kenny, Charles (author) and Best, Michael L. (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36721
Notes:
Pages 177-205 in Tim Unwin (ed.), ICT4D: Information and Communication Technology for Development. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. 386 pages.
This study presents an efficient version of test for the hypothesis that education plays a key role in influencing agricultural productivity based on a switching regression model. In the present setting, farmers’ ability to deal with disequilibria is allowed to change with education, which thereby provides a concrete evidence of the effect of education on selected East Asian production agriculture. The results suggest that there exists a threshold for education to be influential to agricultural productivity change when the selected East-Asian economies are categoried by their degree of economic development. Moreover, for the group of economies where education constitutes a major determinant of productivity growth in both the technological progression and/or stagnation/recession regimes, the effect of education is found to vary from economy to economy and from regime to regime. Generally speaking, however, those East-Asian economies tend to reach their turning point in short time despite of the mentioned differences. This result therefore leads to important policy implications concerning giving an impetus to human capital investment in the agriculture sector.
Xiaoming, Hao (author), Banerjee, Indrajit (author), and Jinqui, Zhao (author)
Format:
Paper
Publication Date:
2007-12-15
Published:
China
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 180 Document Number: C36116
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Presented to the Conference on Empowering Rural Communities through ICT Policy and Research, Chennai, India, December 15-17, 2007. 17 pages., Case study of a rural community internet access center that lacked sustainability.
