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Production Efficiency and Agricultural Technologies in the Ethiopian Agriculture
Mariam, Yohannes; Coffin, Garth - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
Stochastic frontier production function analysis was performed to examine relative crop and milk production efficiency among peasants in Ada and Selale districts of the Central highlands of Ethiopia. The results indicate that Ada farmers exhibit relatively higher efficiency scores in cereal...
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Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer?
Klerkx, Laurens; Hall, Andy; Leeuwis, Cees - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
potential role of innovation brokers in developing countries' agriculture. It concludes that innovation brokerage roles are …This paper examines the role of innovation brokers in stimulating innovation system interaction and innovation capacity … building, and illustrates this by taking the case of Dutch agriculture as an example. Subsequently, it reflects upon the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712303
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Strengthening Agricultural Innovation Capacity: Are Innovation Brokers the Answer?
Klerkx, Laurens; Hall, Andy; Leeuwis, Cees - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009
potential role of innovation brokers in developing countries' agriculture. It concludes that innovation brokerage roles are …This paper examines the role of innovation brokers in stimulating innovation system interaction and innovation capacity … building, and illustrates this by taking the case of Dutch agriculture as an example. Subsequently, it reflects upon the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256463
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Microalgae-based products for the food and feed sector: an outlook for Europe
Enzing, Christien; Ploeg, Matthias; Barbosa, Maria; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
achieving commercial authorization of algae-derived products in the EU markets due to the complexity of the regulation of novel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011169793
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Seeds, Patents and Power : The Shifting Foundation of Our Food System
Matson, James - 2014
Our food supply rests on a foundation of agricultural seed. As the world races to meet soaring food demand, the development and control of this fundamental genetic resource will be of critical concern to the entire human community. Seed, once treated as a shared public good and natural resource,...
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Agriculture for Development: Lessons from the World Development Report 2008
Sadoulet, Elisabeth; Janvry, Alain de - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2009) 1
The World Development Report 2008 was a call for better use to be made of agriculture for development. The urgency of … stop turning their backs on agriculture? What will it take for agriculture to be effectively used for development and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005003913
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Making Agricultural Systems More Environmentally Sustainable
Markandya, Anil - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2009) 1
environmentally sustainable. The Author highlights three global trends that will drive the relationship between agriculture and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005003933
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World Food Markets and the Prospects for Developing and Least Developed Countries Agriculture
Sarris, Alexander - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2009) 1
This comment to the article by de Janvry and Sadoulet highlights the prospects for developing and least developed countries in world food markets. The Author puts the recent agricultural price developments in perspective and suggests what trade policies ought to be implemented to enhance...
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Dualism and Power in Agriculture Scientific and Technological Development
Pietrobelli, Carlo - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2009) 1
agriculture. The Author makes suggestions in two major areas: a) the extent and continuing relevance of dualism in developing … agriculture that are emerging. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005003957
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African Agricultural Mechanization : Myths, Realities and an Emerging Research Agenda
Daum, Thomas - 2019
African farm systems remain the least mechanized of all continents. There were substantial state-led efforts to promote agricultural mechanization during the 1960s and 1970s, but these efforts failed, which led to a subsequent neglect of mechanization, both in practice and in academia. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858019