This chapter is motivated by the question of whether development assistance directed at agriculture (agricultural aid … development, irrigation, research, extension, and higher education. However, except for the World Bank's Operations Evaluation … results. Aid to agriculture from nearly all donors fell precipitously beginning in the mid-1980s despite clear evidence that …

public. Education and research in sustainable agriculture are suggested as possible tools via which solutions to the …The paper offers an analysis of some of the prevailing practices in sustainable agriculture and points out some of the … paradoxes that need to be addressed and resolved in order to enhance acceptability of sustainable agriculture by the general …

sector and justifies why we can conceive of a macroeconomics of agriculture. The primary sector is characterized by product … -- from agriculture to the rest of the economy -- forward linkages -- from the macroeconomy and the international economy to … agriculture -- and second-round feed-back interdependent linkages. Models and studies attempting to quantify the linkages are then …

empirical studies of this theory conducted in field settings. Since research in the lab and in the field both provide evidence …