Phase 2, INTERPAKS, The evolution of socio-economic thought concerning the diffusion of innovations started with a debate about the relative importance of social and economic factors in the adoption of hybrid corn and hybrid sorghum in the United States during the 1928-1941 period. Sociologists and economists agreed that an array of factors, not too well understood, and varying from one farm and farm area to another, stimulate adoption. The literature on the Green Revolution of the 1960's added new dimensions to the debate by considering not only adoption and production, but a host of other conditions such as markets and income distribution. The very nature of the adoption process tends to favor early adopters with favorable social and economic characteristics. Those less fortunate fall behind because they are unable to assume the added production costs and the risks associated with the potentially higher returns from the new technology. These new findings point to the necessity of formulating technological packages based on integrated socio-economic research where the entire decision environment of the farmer is considered.
Sassenrath, G.F. (author), Halloran, J.M. (author), Archer, D. (author), Raper, R.L. (author), Hendrickson, J. (author), Vadas, P. (author), and Hanson, J. (author)
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Journal article
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2010
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USA
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 183 Document Number: C37236
search through journal, Scientific research in Africa should be aimed at optimizing human and material resources. Scientific education is of fundamental importance in promoting the growth of productivity. While African technological growth is desirable, it must be considered in the light of the relevant cultural and economic backgrounds. Technological transfer should be approached with caution, and only appropriate or adaptable techniques should be imported. Capital-intensive industries of the West are not suitable for third world countries with much labour and little capital (original)
Allen, Lindsay (author), Chavez, Adolfo (author), Guarnaccia, Peter J. (author), Meneses, Luzmaria (author), Pelto, Gretel L. (author), Pelto, Pertti J. (author), and Guarnaccia: Department of Human Ecology, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; Pelto, Pertti J.: Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Pelto, Gretel L. and Allen: Department of Nutrition, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Meneses, Chavez: Instituto Nacional de Nutricion, San Fernando y Viaducto Tlalpan, Mexico, Mexico
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Journal article
Publication Date:
1988
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USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 88 Document Number: C06080
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08639
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Located in Review of Extension Studies, volumes for 1946-1956, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., Summary of research report. Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Manhattan. Technical Bulletin 83. 31 pages.
James F. Evans Collection, The effects of the economy on political attitudes is a long-standing sociological issue that is receiving renewed attention in the face of recent U.S. economic downturns. While the impacts of the farm crisis on financial and household well-being of farm operators have been addressed by a number of studies, few have explored its political outcomes. Four perspectives that consider how economic forces translate into political beliefs are outlined, two reflecting objective economic position (class location and financial pressure) and two indicating subjective appraisals (feelings of economic uncertainty and subjective deprivation). Data from a sample of Ohio farm operators for 1987 are used to analyze how the perspectives are related to progressive beliefs about farming, the domestic nonfarm economy, and third-world food production. Indicators of objective economic position and subjective appraisals have relatively limited impact on farmers' political attitudes. Of these indicators, subjective appraisals were more closely related to attitudes. In addition, operators' stances on farm political issues also affect their views on domestic nonfarm and third-world policy agendas. Implications were found for studies of farmers' political attitudes as well as for broader sociological theory regarding the development of progressive attitudes during periods of economic decline. (original)
