Technology and innovation
- Where is the Farmer First agenda twenty years on?
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Over the past two decades, the Farmer First perspective has provided a powerful critique of the conventional organisation and application of agricultural R&D, with its emphasis on transfer of technology models. On 12-14 Dec, twenty years after the original Farmer First workshop, IDS hosted a 3-day workshop ‘Farmers First Revisited’, to evaluate how these approaches have panned out, and to identify future priorities and challenges. This dedicated website provides an overview of the workshop and links to 69 papers contributed by participants from around the world.
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- Developing free drought-tolerant varieties allow African farmers unwilling to pay market prices to access the potential benefits
- T.J. Dalton;M. Yesuf;L. Muhammad / AgEcon Search, 2011
- Recent projections on the impact of climate change argue that eastern and southern Africa will experience dramatic reductions in maize yields by mid‐century. This research paper argues that such st...
- Encouraging agricultural innovations in China
- G. Shi;C. Pray / AgEcon Search, 2011
- Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of developing countries. This paper seeks to investigate how policy and market factors influence firms&rsqu...
- Adopting technologies for irrigated rice in Tanzania needs access to credit
- Y. Nakano;K. Kajisa / AgEcon Search, 2011
- The imbalance between domestic production of rice and rice consumption has been growing in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Nevertheless, one possible strategy for achieving productivity improvement is to...
- How to estimate the timeframes for project impacts in innovation and agriculture
- G. Kuehne;R. Llewellyn;D. Pannell / AgEcon Search, 2011
- There is an increasing demand from research, development and extension agencies for estimates of likely extent of adoption and the likely timeframes for project impacts. This paper reports on the r...
- Smallholder farming in Malawi
- R. Mussa / Chancellor College, University of Malawi, 2006
- This paper investigates the technical efficiency of two samples of smallholder farmers in southern Malawi, one involving farmers adopting integrated aquaculture-agriculture (IAA) technology and the...
- Rural Kenyans’ awareness of phone-based banking services is high, but usage is low
- O.K. Kirui;J.J. Okello;R.A. Nyikal / AgEcon Search, 2010
- Smallholder farmer access to agricultural finance has been a major constraint to agricultural commercialisation in developing countries, yet ICT revolution in Africa has brought an opportunity to ease...
- Understanding farmers’ concerns about the participatory process encourages sustained technology adoption in Zimbabwe
- T. Pedzisa;I. Minde;S. Twomlow / AgEcon Search, 2010
- Participatory technology development has been used for quite some time, but little is known about how farmers perceive participatory methods and processes. This paper argues that understanding farm...
- Applying credit and extension services in Malawi to increase adopting improved groundnut varieties
- F. Simtowe;S. Asfaw;A. Diagne / AgEcon Search, 2010
- This paper makes reference to the actual and potential adoption rates of improved groundnut varieties in Malawi and their determinants conditional on farmers’ awareness of the technology. The...
- Practices and technologies that could help climate adaption
- T. Lybbert;D. Sumner / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development , 2010
- Climate Change exacerbates the already serious challenges facing the agricultural sector, particularly in developing countries. This paper highlights technological and institutional innovations req...
- The projected impacts of climate change on China’s grain - will gains compensate losses?
- J. Wang;J. Huang;S. Rozelle / International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development , 2010
- This study projects the impacts of climate change on China’s agricultural sector under a scenario that assumes a heterogeneous world with continuous population growth and regionally-oriented ...
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