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  Agricultural productivity and economic policies: concepts and measurements

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  This study develops a conceptual framework for analysing the ways in which changes in the economic environment modify factor productivity. It focuses on the technology actually used in production - implemented technology - rather than the generation of technology.
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  Structural adjustment and the institutional dimensions of agricultural research and development in Brazil: soybeans, wheat and sugar cane

  OECD Development Centre, 1992

  Structural adjustment, liberalisation and the pressures of technological change are having major impact on the institutional organisation of the agro-industrial sector. In industrialised countries, the private sector is positioned to play the vanguard role in the next generation of agricultural technologies.
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  Biotechnology Policy for Development Country Agriculture

  OECD Development Centre, 1997

  Biotechnology offers the potential for more environmentally-friendly agriculture but the conditions for developing countries to take advantage of that potential should be created. Policy intervention is needed to ensure that biotechnology responds to the priorities set for agriculture.
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  Biotechnology and sustainable crop production in Zimbabwe

  OECD Development Centre, 1995

  This case study of Zimbabwe has examined developments in biotechnology against the background of a well-developed national agricultural research, plant breeding and seeds system.
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  Considerations of wildlife resources and land use in Chad

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1997

  Planning and education are needed on options for numbers of animals. land use in Chad to ensure that development considers the proper use, maintenance, and enhancement of its remaining natural resources, and especially the needs of fish and wildlife populations and their habitats. Chadians traditionally have harvested wildlife and their very rich fisheries to supplement their diets.
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  Cash crop and foodgrain productivity in Senegal : historical view, new survey, evidence, and policy implications

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  This research report provides an in-depth understanding of many aspects of Senegalese agricultural policy, its historical impact, and more recent farmer responses to government attempts to recent farmer responses to government attempts to stimulate growth in the agricultural sector.
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  Comparative cost of production analysis in East Africa : implications for competitiveness and comparative advantage

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  Report is an analytical attempt to highlight areas of comparative advantage and disadvantage in various East African countries and suggest ways in which these countries could improve regional and individual competitiveness in production and trade via optimal resource allocation.
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  Endowments in Africa: A Discussion of Issues for Using Alternative Funding Mechanisms to Support Agricultural and Natural Resources Management Programs

  Development Experience Clearinghouse, USAID, 1996

  Endowments make an indirect, yet major contribution to sustainable development. Setting up an endowment that has credibility within civil soci-ety requires a process that is transparent and highly participatory.
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  Rehabilitation Planning for Small Tanks in Cascades: A Methodology Based on Rapid Assessment

  International Water Management Institute, 1997

  This report argues that irrigation system rehabilitation planning must take place within a basin context. That is, the impacts of system improvements on other users in the basin must be assessed to avoid creating or aggravating discord over water and to ensure that investments in water resources development give the expected benefits.
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  Zimbabwe: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1998

  Report concentrates on ways of encouraging more sustainable smallholder agriculture in the drier regions of Zimbabwe within the context of reforms in agricultural services in a more liberal and plural economic and service environment. Paradoxically in Zimbabwe there is a need for both increased use of external inputs as well as a much greater emphasis on low external input technologies.

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