Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06755
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AGRICOLA CAT 92972411, London, UK : Overseas Development Institute, Agricultural Administration Unit, 1986. 20 p. (Agricultural Administration Research and Extension Network, Discussion Paper no. 16.)
Gnaegy Suzanna (author / Winrock International) and Anderson, Jock R. (author / Winrock International)
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Publication
Publication Date:
1991-06-30
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International
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 114 Document Number: D11012
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World Bank Discussion Paper 126. Washington, D.C. 158 pages., Studies from a workshop. Includes evidence that research and extension had contributed to a decline in agricultural production. "There is a broad consensus about the many factors that have contributed to failures to boost land and labor productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa. Both technological options and agroecological and socioeconomic circumstances in this vast region are diverse, thus creating a complex matrix of impacts and explanations. The central explanation is that research and development activities, whether public or private, national or international, have produced innovations that farmers find variously unprofitable, too risky, or impossible to implement in a timely and useful fashion. These problems lead, in turn, to often declining agricultural productivity and a deteriorating agricultural resource base, particularly of soil and forest resources. Stepping back further from the farmers themselves to the institutions that are supposed to have assisted, the difficulties are several including the poor (often irrelevant for resource-poor farmers) siting of much past experimental and testing endeavor, inadequate and temporally inconsistent staff and budget support for national research and extension organizations.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C18396
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Pages 71-124 in Martin Pineiro and Eduardo Trigo (eds.), Technical change and social conflict in agriculture: Latin American perspectives. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. 248 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C06931
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AGRICOLA CAT 91951469; Sequel to Agro-mechanical diffusion in a backward region; Table of Contents only, Ahmedabad, India : Gujarat Institute of Area Planning, 1988. 223 p. (Sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research)
Posted at www.agrimarketing.com, Discusses ways in which to make agri-marketing firms more innovative through involvement of personnel with diverse skills and interests.
