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2. Conditions for the diffusion of agricultural technology: an Asian perspective
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hayami, Y. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1974
- Published:
- Japan
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 50 Document Number: C00354
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Economic History
- Journal Title Details:
- 34 (1) : 131-148
- Notes:
- Phase 1, INTERPAKS, Both research in agricultural technology and construction of land infrastructure are characterized by indivisibility, externality, and jointness in supply and utilization. The theory of public good economics of the Samuelson-Musgrave tradition tells us that the goods and services with such attributes cannot be supplied at socially optimum levels if the supply is left to private firms within a competitive market mechanism. Public investments are required to correct for such market failure. The need for public institutions to conduct adaptive research and to build and coordinate the use of irrigation systems is especially critical in Asian agriculture, where the possibility for farm producers to conduct such activities by themselves is limited. In this article, the author attempts to demonstrate the critical importance of adaptive research and land infrastructure investment in the process of diffusion of agricultural technology, drawing on the history of rice technology development in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea, in contrast to the more recent development of rice technology in South and Southeast Asia, which has been heralded as the "green revolution". He attempts to identify what institutions have to be evolved for satisfying the basic requirements for technology diffusion in agriculture, and to infer what forces were responsible for inducing such institutional evolution.
3. Constraints on research and the transfer of technology in solving hunger
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Nicholson, R.L. (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1983
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 51 Document Number: C00480
- Notes:
- AgComm teaching. See ID C00478, In Williams, R.D. (ed.). Communication of weed science technologies in developing countries. Proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the International Weed Science Society and Weed Science Society of America, February 10, 1983. St. Louis, Missouri. (pp.17-30). Corvallis, Oregon: International Plant Protection Center, Oregon State University.
4. High-tech transfer : selling the canoe without the paddle
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Hamelink, Cees (author / Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1985
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06340
- Journal Title:
- Development: Seeds of Change
- Journal Title Details:
- 85 (1) : 28-37
- Notes:
- Information technology (computers, communication, etc.) has become an indispensable part of modern life. As such, it is being transferred to the developing world from industrialized countries. However, real technology transfer rarely takes place in such transactions. What the Third World ends up with are prepackaged end products, for which it typically pays a great deal of money. As long as the industrialized countries hesitate to share their research and manufacturing methods, the developing nations will be at their mercy in this vital area. The Third World, in turn, should not expect a "free ride" in this connection, but should develop an information technology of its own.
5. Inequalities in the information age : farmers' differential adoption and use of four information technologies
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Abbott, Eric A. (author), Yarbrough, J. Paul (author), and Abbott: Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Iowa State University; Yarbrough: Department of Communication, Cornell University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1992
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 90 Document Number: C06428
- Journal Title:
- Agriculture and Human Values
- Journal Title Details:
- 9 (2) : 67-79
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, New communication technologies such as the microcomputer, videotex/teletext systems, the videocassette recorder, and satellite receiving dishes have been available to farmers since the early 1980s. This longitudinal study examines ethical issues associated with the impact that differential patterns of adoption and use of these technologies have had on inequalities among farmers from 1982 to 1989. The results demonstrate a strong adoption and use bias toward larger scale farmers who already have well-developed skills for handling information. This bias is especially strong for microcomputer and videotex/teletex systems and it is increasing over time. Although the same farmers are not adopting all communication innovations, there is a strong tendency toward the already information-rich making the most use of the innovations they adopt. The article concludes with several recommendations that would help minimize some of these information inequalities. (original)
6. Problems and opportunities in improving weed control technology in developing countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Fryer, J.D. (author)
- Format:
- Conference paper
- Publication Date:
- 1983
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 51 Document Number: C00479
- Notes:
- AgComm teaching; See C00478, In: Williams, R.D., ed. Communication of weed science technologies in developing countries : proceedings of a symposium sponsored by the International Weed Science Society and Weed Science Society of America, 1983 February 10; St. Louis, MO. Corvallis, OR : International Plant Protection Center, Oregon State University, 1983. p.1-16
7. Reporting and selling the agricultural research story
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Miller, Mason E. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1979
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 52 Document Number: C00688
- Journal Title:
- ACE Quarterly
- Journal Title Details:
- 62 (4) : 3-6
- Notes:
- AgComm Teaching
8. The effectiveness of television as a medium of communication for imparting scientific know-how to the farmers
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Sekhon, I. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1970-03
- Published:
- India
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 1 Document Number: B00106
- Journal Title:
- Indian Journal of Extension Education
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 (1/2) : 90-95
- Notes:
- AgComm Teaching
9. Transplantation of science to Anglophone and Francophone Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Davis, Charles H. (author), Eisemon, Thomas O. (author), and Rathgeber, Eva-Marie (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1985-08
- Published:
- UK: Beech Tree Publishing, Guildford, Surrey, UK
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07802
- Journal Title:
- Science and Public Policy
- Journal Title Details:
- 12 (4) : 191-202
- Notes:
- cited reference, In colonial Africa, scientific institutions were researching into ways of making life easier for expatriates, e.g., tropical medicine and the production of crops for export. With independence, the British handed over most of the research institutes and educational establishments to the new states, while the French retained a strong presence. There is now a severe shortage of trained scientists in black Africa, and heavy dependence on international assistance and transfer of knowledge. It is argued that more enduring structures for scientific and technological cooperation must be developed. (original)