Nascimento,Abdias do (Author) and Nascimento,Elisa Larkin (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1992, 1987
Published:
Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
218 p, Contents: Memories from exile : the making of a Brazilian Pan-Africanist (Lisbon, 1976 and Rio de Janeiro, 1991). Appendix: Nascimento's inaugural speech as state secretary -- Pan-Africanism, Negritude and the African experience in Brazil (Miami and Dakar, 1987) -- Africans in South and Central America : members of the African World (Accra, 1988)
Barbosa, Mariza (author), Junior, Raimundo Gomes (author), Strauss, John (author), Teixeira, Sonia (author), Thomas, Duncan (author), and Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA; EMBRAPA-SEP, Brasilia, Brazil; EMBRAPA Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Arroz e Fejao (CNPAF), Goiania, Brazil; Yale University, New Haven, CT; EMBRAPA-SEP, Brasilia, Brazil
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1992-08
Published:
Netherlands
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 87 Document Number: C05924
This paper explores reduced form determinants of the adoption of certain technologies by upland rice and soybean farmers in the Center-West region of Brazil. We merge community level data on the availability and quality of publicly provided infrastructure, principally extension, to the farm level data containing information on farmer human capital as well as land quantity and quality. By using community level measures of availability and quality of extension, we avoid problems of endogeneity of farm level measures of extension use. We find positive impacts of farmer education on the diffusion process, in accordance with other studies. We also isolate effects of the quality in regional extension investment as measured by the average experience of technical extension staff. These results indicate that investments in human capital of extension workers does have a payoff in terms of farmer adoption of improved cultivation practices.
