Adoption of new practices and technologies influences farm productivity and agricultural growth. Countries invest in research and extension to ensure continuous growth both at the farm and industry level. This chapter investigates agricultural technology production, its knowledge transfer, and...

The literature examining the role played by family life cycle in farm households' decisions to adopt sustainable agricultural technology (SAT) remains scant. To bridge this gap, we evaluate the impact of family life cycle on farm households' adoption of SATs by using multivariate probit...

This paper analyses the pathways of technology diffusion through social networks, following the experimental introduction of new technologies in Guinea-Bissau. In the context of an agricultural extension project, we document both the direct effects of this intervention and subsequent diffusion...

ICT Agriculture plays a vital role in India’s economy. India’s farmers live in rural areas and agriculture and allied activities still constitute the largest share of India’s employment. It is estimated that 72 per cent farmers do not have access to reliable sources of information and this...

Can improving access to mobile extension improve agricultural productivity? Recent evidence suggests both significant and insignificant ways in which SMS-based agricultural information could affect farming outcomes. It is unclear if variations in the programs' design or the methodological...

Improved seed is one of the crucial ingredients for promoting agricultural productivity, farmers’ livelihood, and global food security. The present study uses an endogenous treatment regression model (ETRM) to evaluate the impacts of improved seed maize technology (ISMT) adoption on technical...

This paper presents a novel agent-based model of land use and technological change in the agricultural sector under environmental boundaries, finite available resources and changing land productivity. In particular, we model a spatially explicit economy populated by boundedly-rational farmers...

Based on unique primary surveys, we study dairy transformation processes in East Africa, specifically in Ethiopia and Uganda. Evidence on transformation and differential paths followed in doing so in these countries is often limited due to a lack of data. We note significant changes in the dairy...

Haricot bean is one of the most important food legumes of Ethiopia and it is considered as the main cash crop and the least expensive source of protein for the farmers. Low production and productivity, which are mainly associated with poor adoption and inefficient implementation of improved farm...

We present large-scale evidence on the effects of access to information on agricultural technology adoption and crop yields in India. We combine geo-referenced data on the construction of new mobile phone towers with data on the location and content of 2.5 million phone calls made by farmers to...

This study-which includes a pilot intervention in Kenya-aims to further the state of knowledge about the emerging trend of disruptive agricultural technologies (DATs) in Africa, with a focus on supply-side dynamics. The first part of the study is a stocktaking analysis to assess the number,...

Some entry barriers in agricultural and agro-processing value chains, particularly for smallholder farmers and small/medium-sized processors, can be overcome with innovation and technology adoption. Technologies and innovation in these sectors have been both radical and incremental, ranging...

The Agri-Tech Catalyst was launched in 2013 as a key programme under the government's UK strategy for agricultural technologies. It secured £60 million from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Innovate UK and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research...

The Agri-Tech Catalyst was launched in 2013 as a key programme under the government's UK strategy for agricultural technologies. It secured £60 million from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Innovate UK and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research...

Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks, such as agriculture, can have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using exogenous variation in the extent of loamy soil, which is more amenable to deep tillage than clayey soil and therefore...

We examine the role of adopting environmentally-friendly agricultural technologies on the technical efficiency (TE) among maize farmers in the mountainous areas of Northern Vietnam. While technology adoption is non-randomly assigned to farmers, we draw on recent advances of machine learning...

We study the influence of agricultural labor intensity on individualism across U.S. counties. To measure historical labor intensity in agriculture we combine data on crop-specific labor requirements and county-specific crop mix around 1900. To address endogeneity we exploit climate-induced...

Part I. --Framing the problem and the solution --Part II. -- Thewho and how of farming --Part III. --Understanding agritech: the old and the new --Part IV. --Lay of the land: a global and Indian perspective --Part V. --Ground stories and inputs --Part VI. --Closing the loop with all stakeholders...

"With all the bitterness and drama of the race between Ford, Dodge, and General Motors, Tractor Wars is the untold story of industry stalwarts and disruptors, inventors, and administrators racing to invent modern agriculture-a power farming revolution that would usher in a whole new world."

New Technologies Contribution on the Agrifood Sector for Achieving Circular Economy Goals / Christina Kleisiari, Leonidas-Sotirios Kyrgiakos, Panos Pardalos, and George Vlontzos -- Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for High-dimensional Data in Precision Agriculture / Mostafa Reisi-Gahrooei...

"Emerging Trends in Sustainable Agricultural Practices will detail sustainable technologies in sustainable agriculture, including classification and change detection of cultivated land, sensing mechanisms and platforms, and decision support systems for precision agriculture. The intention of...

"As agricultural productivity has been gaining prominence in recent years and is now become the important points for the modern agriculture, this book covers different eco-friendly technologies for the sustainable management of natural resources"--