Melichar, Emanuel (author / Senior Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C.) and Senior Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, D.C.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1977-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: C00077
Andrews, M.S. (author), Rausser, G.C. (author), and Andrews: National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, Resources for the Future; Rausser: University of California Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 49 Document Number: C00142
Cotner, M.L. (eds.) (author), Halcrow, H.G. (author), Heady, E.O. (author), and University of Illinois, Department of Agricultural Economics; Iowa State University, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development; USDA, ERS (Economic Research Service)
Format:
Book
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 55 Document Number: C01261
Notes:
Cited Reference. Includes table of contents only; See also C01263 (Chapter 6) and C01264 (chapter 10), Ankeny, Iowa : Soil Conservation Society of America, 1982. 330 p.
Forster, D. Lynn (author), Napier, T.L. (author), and Ohio State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology; Ohio State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 55 Document Number: C01263
Notes:
See also C01261, C01264, In: Halcrow, H.G., Heady, E.O., and Cotner, M.L., eds. Soil conservation policies, institutions, and incentives. Ankeny, Iowa : Soil Conservation Society of America, 1982. p. 137-150
Bromley, D.W. (author / University of Wisconsin, Department of Agricultural Economics) and University of Wisconsin, Department of Agricultural Economics
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 55 Document Number: C01264
Notes:
See also C01261, C01263, In: Halcrow, H.G., Heady, E.O., and Cotner, M.L., eds. Soil conservation policies, institutions, and incentives. Ankeny, Iowa : Soil Conservation Society of America, 1982. p. 219-232
Blakely, P.K. (author), Campbell, F.S. (author), Forbes, F.D. (author), and University of British Columbia, Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration; Agriculture Canada, British Columbia; British Columbia Egg Marketing Board
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
Canada
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 55 Document Number: C01265
Notes:
Proceedings of the 1982 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, University of British. Columbia, Vancouver, July 12-14, 1982. Vancouver, Canada : University of British Columbia, 1983, p. 91-107
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.
