Search Results - subject:"EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES"

The Roles of Research at Universities and Public Labs in Innovation Systems: a Perspective from the Italian Food and Drink industry

Maietta, Ornella Wanda - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

The objective of the paper is to determine the role that R&D networking, through the collaboration of firms with universities, plays among the determinants of product and process innovation in the Italian food and drink industry and how geographical proximity to a university affects both R&D...

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The Input of Human Labour, Tractive Force and Energy Consumption in Model Technologies of Energy Crop Production

Pepliński, Benedykt; Baum, Rafal; Majchrzycki, Dariusz; … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

This study was an analysis of the input of human labour, tractive force and energy consumption in the model technologies of production of winter wheat, winter triticale, winter rye and sugar beets grown for bioethanol as well as reed canary grass, Virginia mallow, sorgo and maize grown for...

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Does Market Orientation in Small-Scale farms pay off? A study of Innovation behaviour in Spanish agriculture

López-Mosquera, Natalia; Álvarez-Coque, José María … - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

The paper underlines the importance of adopting a ‘market-orientation’ strategic approach in order to improve the performance of the firms, previously influenced by the ‘adoption of innovations’ of interest to the agricultural firms in two Spanish regions. The methodology selected has...

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A methodological proposal to approach farmers’ adoption behavior: stated preferences and perceptions of the innovation

Roussy, Caroline; Ridier, Aude; Chaib, Karim - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

In order to approach farmers’ adoption behavior of innovative cropping systems (ICS) on a sample of specialized cereal French farmers, a methodological protocol combining stated preferences and perceptions is designed. An original choice modelling protocol allows analyzing farmers’...

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Using Former Farmland for Biomass Crops: Massachusetts Landowner Motivations and Willingness to Plant

Timmons, David - In: Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 43 (2014) 3

Producing biomass energy requires extensive land resources. In western Massachusetts, where almost 90 percent of former farmland is no longer in commercial use, we study factors that motivate landowners to grow biomass energy crops. A geographic information system model identifies a landowner...

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The impact of improved clean cookstoves on households in Southern Haiti

Sagbo, Nicaise S. M.; Kusunose, Yoko - Southern Agricultural Economics Association - SAEA - 2014

The present paper evaluates the effects of the use of improved cookstoves (ICSs) on household fuel expenditure in Southern Haiti. It takes advantage of the fact that approximately 80 households received ICSs, a novel technology, in the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Survey work in...

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Long-run and Global R&D Funding Trajectories: The U.S. Farm Bill in a Changing Context

Pardey, Philip; Chan-Kang, Connie; Beddow, Jason M.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

Domestically funded (and performed) research and development (R&D) has historically been a major source of productivity gains in U.S. agriculture, and a principal source of R&D spillovers to the rest of the world. In the waning decades of the 20th century, U.S. policymakers opted to ratchet down...

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Leveraging Emerging Technologies to Address Specific Learning Challenges and Derive Authentic Learning in Mathematics for Business at Africa University - Zimbabwe

Kandiero, Agrippah; Jagero, Nelson - In: International Journal of Academic Research in … 3 (2014) 1, pp. 162-180

Emerging Technologies have been put forward by many theorists and researchers in the field of education as the key to … learning. This paper reports on use of Emerging Technologies to address learning challenges and derive authentic learning in a … technologies, Assess student motivation to adopt and use emerging technologies, and Evaluate pedagogical impact of using emerging …

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Effectiveness of the bean seed dissemination models implemented under the Bean Technology Dissemination (BTD) Project: Results of key informant interviews in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua

Reyes, Byron; DeYoung, David; Maredia, Mywish K. - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2014

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Farmer perspective on the use of and demand for seeds of improved bean varieties: Results of beneficiary surveys in Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua

Maredia, Mywish K.; Reyes, Byron; DeYoung, David - Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource … - 2014

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