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.
Johnson, Jane S. (author / University of Illinois)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
USA: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes1 Document Number: C12100
Jiggins, Janice (author / Freelance Consultant, Andelst, The Netherlands) and Freelance Consultant, Andelst, The Netherlands
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1989-02
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 74 Document Number: C03705
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Guelph, Canada : University of Guelph, Department of Rural Extension Studies, 1989. 16 p. (Occasional Papers in Rural Extension, No. 5)
Review of Vernon Ruttan, "Technology transfer, institutional transfer, and induced technical and institutional change in agricultural development." Prepared for the Agricultural Development Conference at Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, May 1973.
