Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 107 Document Number: C10126
Notes:
search from AgEcon., American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, August 2-5, 1998, Salt Lake City, Utah. 5 pages; Adobe Acrobat PDF 18K bytes, Selected Paper Session SP - 6R Adoption of Technology in Developing Countries Abstract/Description: These
papers move beyond the questions of who adopts technologies to ask how preferences for characteristics (of maize in Mexico or cattle in Burkina Faso) affect adoption and how technical change differentially affects semi-subsistence farmers and how it affects productivity and yield variability. Modeling the Impacts of Soil Conservation on Productivity and Yield Variability: Evidence From a Heteroskedastic Switching Regression Gerald Shively, Purdue University Selecting Genetic Traits for Cattle Improvement: Preservation of Disease Resistant Cattle in Africa Kouadio Tano, University of Abidjan; Merle Faminow, University of Manitoba Variety Characteristics and the Land Allocation Decisions of Farmers in a Center of Maize Diversity Melinda Smale, Maricio Bellon, and Alfonso Aguirre The Distributional Impacts of Farm Policy in Semi-subsistence Agriculture Garth Holloway and Nermin Akyil, AERI
O'Gorman, Melanie (author / University of Toronto) and Centre for the Study of African Economics, Oxford, UK
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2006-07-20
Published:
United Kingdom
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28215
Notes:
Posted online at http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/2007-EDiA-LaWBiDC/papers/295-OGorman.pdf, Presented at the "Economic development in Africa" conference from March 18-20, 2007 at Oxford University.
Bortei-Doku, Eugene (author / University of Ghana)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 31 Document Number: C12498
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection; See B03082, Pages 218-225 in Robert H. Crawford and William B. Ward (eds.), Communication strategies for rural development. Proceedings of the Cornell-CIAT international symposium, Cali, Colombia, March 17-22, 1974. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 278 p.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07850
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection, Mimeographed, 1994. 2 p. Paper presented at the International Agricultural Communicators in Education Conference, Moscow, ID/Pullman, WA, July 16-20, 1994.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes13a Document Number: C12520
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 47-62 in U.S. Agency for International Development, Proceedings of the workshop on social science research and the CRSPs, June 9-11, 1992, at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. Related to the Collaborative Research Support Programs (CRSP). 279 p.
Segarra-Ortiz, Hilda (author / University of Puerto Rico, Agricultural Extension Service)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 31 Document Number: C12493
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection; See B03082, Pages 84-87 in Robert H. Crawford and William B. Ward (eds.), Communication strategies for rural development. Proceedings of the Cornell-CIAT international symposium, Cali, Colombia, March 17-22, 1974. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. 278 p.
Burfisher, M. E. (author) and Horenstein, N. R. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 103 Document Number: C08933
Notes:
B. L. Green shields & M. A. Bellamy (Eds.), Rural development: growth and inequity, contributed papers read at the 18th International Conference of Agricultural Economics. Aldershot, Hants, England: Gower. 161-165.
