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2. An economic approach to the diffusion process
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gutkind, Efraim (author) and Zilberman, David (author)
- Format:
- Report
- Publication Date:
- 1980
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07435
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS, Berkeley, CA: Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, University of California, 1980. (working paper no. 159.) 18 p., Empirical works found that the rate of diffusion of new technology is an S-shaped function of time. The prevailing theoretical explanation of these observations treats diffusion of a continuous process of imitation or communication among adopters. Introduces an alternative model for the adoption of new processes by industry based on microeconomic theory. Demonstrates that S-shaped diffusion curves can be explained by profit maximation, increasing returns to scale of the new technology, the dynamics of input prices, and the size distribution of forms within an industry. The analysis can be applied to the diffusion of new technology among agricultural firms.
3. Differential technology adoption and income distribution in Pakistan : implications for research resource allocation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Renkow, Mitch (author / Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics, North Carolina State University)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1993-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07961
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 75 (1) : 33-43
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, A multi-market model of technological change in food production is used to simulate the long-run income distributional implications of differential diffusion of currently available wheat technologies in Pakistan. The results indicate that a research agenda emphasizing technologies suited to Pakistan's favored production environments would enhance overall production without compromising inter-group equity. It is found that when commodity prices are market determined, net consuming households are the major beneficiaries of technological change. However, in the more common situation of government intervention in markets for staple foods, net producing households are the principal beneficiaries of change. (original)
4. Poisson count models to explain the adoption of agricultural and natural resource management technologies by small farmers in central American countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ramirez, Octavio A. (author) and Shultz, Steven (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2001-04
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18686
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 32 (1) : 31-33
- Notes:
- Evaluation of the factors influencing the adoption of agricultural and natural resource management technologies among small farmers in developing countries have been mostly limited to qualitative discussions or simple descriptive statistics resulting in superficial and inconclusive findings. This study introduces the use of Poisson Count Regressions as a statistically appropriate procedure to analyze certain common types of adoption data. It uses them to assess the impact of key socio-economic, bio-physical, and institutional factors on the adoption of integrated pest management, agroforestry, and soil conservation technologies among small farmers in three Central American countries: Costa Rica, Panama, and El Salvador
5. Technological connections : a conceptual framework for technology transfer
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hewitt, B.R. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1979-04
- Published:
- Thailand
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05228
- Journal Title:
- Thai Journal of Agricultural Science
- Journal Title Details:
- 12 : 151-169
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS, Presents and discusses holistic models for the viable transfer of technology involving linkages with the resource base and the societal patterns. notes examples of such transfers, both appropriate and inappropriate. Aspects of holistic systems discusses include the efficiencies of the systems, technological linkages, and growth strategies. Tacitly postulates that in view of the shortage of energy and/or its increasing cost, that the technologies of developed countries will approach those of developing countries. Further states that countries will be grouped into ecoregions having the greatest ties of trade, culture, and technology with their neighbors.
6. Technology development, technology transfer: rethinking the agriculture extension model
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Meyers, J.M. (author / Associate Director, Cooperative Extension, University of California, Berkeley, CA)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1985
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06829
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 92028468; In the series analytic: Technology transfer to commercialization / compiled by W. Seden and S. Taper, Meeting held June 1985, San Francisco, California., In: International Symposium Proceedings. Los Angeles, CA : Technology Transfer Society. 1985. p. 184-199.