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    Knowledge management for agricultural innovation: lessons from networking efforts in the Bolivian Agricultural Technology System

    Community of Practice, Knowledge Management for International Development, KM4DEV, 2008
    This paper presents results of an analysis of farmers’ behaviour, based on two case studies in Bolivia. It discusses how knowledge management modalities affect innovation behaviour among small farmers. It also examines how schemes, which involve multiple agents, can influence farmers’ attitudes towards innovation.
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    Knowledge management: a key factor for productive chain evolution in the department of Cauca, Colombia

    Community of Practice, Knowledge Management for International Development, KM4DEV, 2007
    With a particular focus on a case study of the fishing chain in Cauca, Colombia, this paper discusses the impact of knowledge management and how it can enhance the productive chain.
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    Farmer Participatory Research in Northern Tanzania

    Farm Africa, 2007
    This document reviews the demand-led participatory model of farmer research and extension implemented by FARM-Africa Tanzania in their Babati Rural Development Research project (2000–2005).
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    Measures of impact of science and technology in India: agriculture and rural development

    MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, 2008
    The revolutions in agriculture, health and education witnessed during the last century were mostly the products of public research supported by governments and philanthropic institutions. Recently, however, there has been a shift away from public research toward commercially profitable research supported by the private sector and protected by intellectual property rights (IPR).
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    The World Bank’s WDR 2008 agriculture for development: response from a slow trade-sound farming perspective

    Heinrich Boell Foundation, 2008
    For the first time in 25 years, the World Bank’s annual Development Report  (WDR 2008) is dedicated to agriculture. This review of the WDR 2008 is written from the perspective of a recent report, 'Slow trade - sound farming: a multilateral framework for sustainable markets in agriculture', which was produced as an outcome of the EcoFair Trade Dialogue project.
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    Farmer First Revisited: workshop papers

    Future Agricultures Consortium, 2007
    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.
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    Regoverning markets programme: innovative practice series

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2007
    Rapid changes are taking place in agri-food markets in middle and low-income countries and small-scale agriculture, which supports the livelihoods of the majority of rural poor, is poorly prepared for these changes.
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    Spotlight on biofuels: the research challenge

    SciDev.Net, 2007
    Biofuels are described by some as absolutely catastrophic because of their potential consequences, while others see them as the driving force for development in some of the world's poorest regions. This edition of SciDev.Net picks a path between "doomsayers" and "utopians", and looks at the reality of biofuels research and development in the developing world.
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    Saving Africa’s soils: science and technology for improved soil management in Africa

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2007
    Soil fertility degradation has been described as the single most important constraint to food security in sub-Saharan Africa. This document examines the scientific and technological requirements for redressing these failures and for scaling up the widespread adoption of the use of soil management practices to conquer both the yield gap and environmental damage.
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    World Development Report 2008: agriculture for development

    World Development Report, World Bank, 2007
    Three out of every four poor people in developing countries live in rural areas, and most of them depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. This year’s edition of the World Bank's World Development Report (WDR) highlights the importance of agriculture for achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.

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