Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 196 Document Number: D08038
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John L. Woods Collection, Description of the project communication strategy approach and how such strategies are prepared. Cites examples of successes. Presented at a senior manager conference of Chemonics International, Inc., Washington, D. C. 8 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07872
Notes:
Pages 118-121 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech? ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition ofAgri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 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.
Labonne, Julien (author) and Chase, Robert S. (author)
Format:
Research paper
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Philippines: Sustainable Development Network, Social Development Department, The World Bank
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 127 Document Number: D11237
Notes:
Via online. Policy Research Working Paper No. 4996. 24 pages., Authors explored the impact of access to information on poor farmers' consumption. Results indicated that farmers purchasing a mobile phone experienced larger growth rate per capita consumption over the 2002-2006 period. Estimates ranged from 11 percent to 17 percent.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 161 Document Number: D07873
Notes:
Pages 122-125 in M.J. Navarro (ed.), Voices and views: why biotech? ISAAA Brief No. 50. International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, Ithaca, New York. 158 pages.
