Hoover, Herbert (author), West, Peter (author), Wirth, M.E. (author), and U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service; U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1986
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 68 Document Number: C02728
Notes:
James F. Evans Collection; Contains abstracts, preface, and summary only, Washington, D.C. : U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Research Service, 1986. 52 p. (ERS Staff Report, no. AGES 860815)
AGE 85925345; Paper presented at the "Annual Meeting at the American Agricultural Economics Association," 1984 August 5 - 8; Ithaca, NY, This paper analyzes the use of an exhaustible resource by an agricultural industry, taking into account agricultural policy considerations and some of the unique conventional wisdom features of the agricultural sector. The model is especially appropriate for analyzing the utilization of water resources. The model assumes the agricultural industry to be competitive, to have a wide distribution of farm sizes, to go through a process of adoption of a continuously improving technology, and to face inelastic demand. The new technology considered is a land quality-improving technology which is similar in its properties to modern irrigation technologies (drip, sprinkler, and center pivot irrigation). In particular, it considers a price-support policy and its impacts.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 145 Document Number: D06597
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Abstract of paper presented in the History Section of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) conference, Braga, Portugal, July 18-22, 2010., Features an independent quarterly periodical that testified to the importance of sustainable agricultural practice from 1939 to 1954.
This study empirically examined the effects of the participatory approach on the adoption of new crop varieties and agricultural practices. Particularly, we focused on the social network structure and examined how the introduced technologies diffused through networks in rural Ethiopia. Our empirical results indicate that if farmers knew and trusted fellow participants, the probability of adopting a new variety increased by 25 percentage points. However, this network had no statistical impact on the diffusion of new agricultural practices. We conclude that the participatory approach has great potential in the adoption of new crop varieties through the social networks of farmers in Ethiopia.
