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Deregulating the Transfer of Agricultural Technology : Lessons from Bangladesh, India, Turkey, and Zimbabwe

Gisselquist, David; Nash, John; Pray, Carl - In: World Bank Research Observer 17 (2002) 2, pp. 237-266

private entry and the introduction of private technology. This study looks at the experience in Bangladesh, India, Turkey, and … Zimbabwe to see whether regulations make a difference in agriculture and input industries in developing economies. In all …

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Adapting To Climate Change In Africa : The role of research and capacity development

Denton, Fatima; O'Neill, Mary; Stone, John M.R. - In: Development Outreach 10 (2008) 1, pp. 38-40

Discusses the Climate Change Adaptation in Africa program, which aims to establish a self-sustained African body of expertise on adaptation through capacity development and strengthening institutions.

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Brazil as an Emerging Donor : Huge potential and growing pains

Sotero, Paulo - In: Development Outreach 11 (2009) 1, pp. 18-20

This article offers an examination of Brazil's experience as a new donor: its purposes, goals, and the effectiveness of its approach.

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Productivity Growth and Sustainability in Post-Green Revolution Agriculture : The Case of the Indian and Pakistan Punjabs

Murgai, Rinku; Ali, Mubarik; Byerlee, Derek - In: World Bank Research Observer 16 (2001) 2, pp. 199-218

This article attempts to determine the long-term productivity and sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the Indian …

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Gender and Agriculture: Inefficiencies, Segregation, and Low Productivity Traps

Croppenstedt, Andre; Goldstein, Markus; Rosas, Nina - In: World Bank Research Observer 28 (2013) 1, pp. 79-109

Women make essential contributions to agriculture in developing countries, where they constitute approximately 43 …

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Daily Wages and Piece Rates in Agrarian Economies.

Baland, J.-M.; Dreze, J.; Leruth, L. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998

The paper presents an analysis of the coexistence of daily-wage and piece-rate contracts in agrarian economies. We show that, when individual effort is taken into account, daily-wage labourers typically form a convex set in the space working ability. The most able and the least able labourers...

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Technical Efficiency, Farm Productivity and Farm Size in Indian Agriculture

Jha, R.; Rhodes, M.J. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 1997

Although there is a very large literature on the links between farm size and farm productivity in Indian agriculture …

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Measuring the Impact of CLimate Change on Indian Agriculture

Dinar, A.; Mendelsohn, R.; Evenson, R.; Parikh, J.; … - World Bank Group - 1998

The set of studies in this report explores farm performance across climates in India. The goal of the study is to … examine farm behavior and test if there is any evidence that farmers in developing countries, such as India, currently adjust … to their local climates. The reported studies measure the climate sensitivity of low-capital agriculture. They test …

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Biological conservation in dynamic agricultural landscapes: effectiveness of public policies and trade-offs with agricultural production

Barraquand, Frederic; Martinet, Vincent - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2011

Land use change and land management intensification are major drivers of biodiversity loss, especially in agricultural landscapes, that cover a large and increasing share of the world's surface. Incentive-based agrienvironmental policies are designed to influence farmers' land-use decisions in...

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Trajectoires d’innovation des services et inertie institutionnelle : dynamique du conseil dans trois agricultures européennes

Labarthe, Pierre - Département Sciences Sociales, Agriculture et … - 2005

cette évolution alors que la diversité des exploitations agricoles pourrait un atout pour une agriculture devant contribuer …, although farm diversity could play a key role to enable agriculture to contribute to sustainable development. …

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