de Janvry, A. (author), Sadoulet, E. (author), and Fafchamps, Marcel (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17266
Notes:
Pages 151-165 in Bruce M. Koppel (ed)., Induced innovation theory and international agricultural development: a reassessment. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland. 188 pages.
Mathur, V.N.P. (author), McKnight, T.S. (author), and Canadian Forestry Service; Canadian Forestry Service
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1984
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 54 Document Number: C01048
Notes:
Phase 2; Evans, In: Moeller, G.H. and Seal, D.T., eds., Technology transfer in forestry : proceedings of a meeting of the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, subject group s608; 1983 25 July - 1 August. London : Great Britain Forestry Commission, 1984. (Forestry Commission Bulletin No. 61) p. 53-56.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D00577
Notes:
Pages 25-33 in Arnold Pichot and Josef Lorenz (eds.) ICT for the next five billion people: information and communication for sustainable development. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. 122 pages.
Sen, D. (author / Senior Extension Methods Officer, Central Plant Protection Training Institute, Hyderabad, India) and Senior Extension Methods Officer, Central Plant Protection Training Institute, Hyderabad, India
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1981-09
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 77 Document Number: C04238
Notes:
Phase 2, INTERPAKS, In: Management of transfer of farm technology. Hyderabad, India : National Institute of Rural Development, 1981. p. 98-102 (Paper presented at the National Workshop on Management of Transfer of Farm Technology; 1979 November 19-24; National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, India), Distinguishes between economic development in industrialized and developing countries and points out the importance of agriculture to the latter. Emphasizes that provision of infrastructure is as important to the adoption of innovations as are socio-economic factors.
36 pages., via online journal., This article examines the challenges facing agriculture in Africa. First the article outlines agriculture’s connection with overall economic growth; then, the author evaluates agricultural productivity and food security in Africa in 2010. From this point, the author evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of seven paths that African agriculture is likely to evolve along between now and 2050: five for Sub-Saharan African and two for North Africa. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the types of farming proposed are: extensive, mechanized; intensive export; intensive peri-urban; subsistence; and reserves, game ranching, and tourism. In North Africa, the author proposes: irrigated and rainfed. In order to realize the most positive benefits of these paths in 2050, Africa has to tackle six challenges, outlined by the author: reducing population growth, promoting irrigation, adapting the role of the state, promoting the acceleration of technical change (including fertilizer and biotechnology), and preparing for climate change. Increasing the competitiveness of Africa’s commercial farming will improve income, inequality, and nutrition across the continent.
