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  Development, planning, and agricultural knowledge on the central plateau of Burkina Faso

  Simon Batterbury, Personal Website, 2005

  This chapter discusses efforts by the farmers in Burkina Faso’s Central Plateau to plan their own agricultural systems, and the role of development actors in this process.
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  Enhancing agricultural innovation: how to go beyond the strengthening of research systems

  World Bank, 2006

  How does innovation occur? Describing recent changes in the context of agricultural development, this paper signals a need to better examine how innovation is generated in the agricultural sector.
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  Agricultural innovation in Latin America: Understanding the private sector's role

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2006

  Conventional thinking has it that private sector investment in agricultural innovation is not sufficient to stimulate new knowledge and technologies that contribute to rural development and poverty alleviation in Latin America.
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  Assessing the suitability of the EPIC crop model for use in the study of impacts of climate variability and climate change in West Africa

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2004

  Scientists of the US Department of Agriculture have developed what is known as the EPIC Crop Model. This model has been successfully applied in the study of erosion, water pollution, and crop growth and production.
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  Reforms of agricultural research and technology dissemination systems in eastern Africa: Tanzanian experience

  Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa, 2004

  This paper charts the reform of agricultural research and technology dissemination in Tanzania with particular reference to the National Agricultural Research System (NARS), including its strengths and weaknesses plus reforming principles and strategies to improve effectiveness.Strengths of the NARS detailed in the paper include:human capacity - the entire NARS has a critical mass of sk
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  Sharing experiences on reform of agricultural research and technology and extension in Eastern Africa

  Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa, 2004

  This paper describes the findings of a meeting convened to allow the directors of agricultural research in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to share their experiences of the reform of their research and technology dissemination systems.
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  Emerging issues in science and technology for food security and sustainable development in Africa

  UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2003

  This paper discusses how current production methods and technologies cannot solve the immense food insecurity problems in Africa even if more land is brought under cultivation.
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  Bt cotton benefits, costs and impacts in China

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2003

  This paper provides a follow up study, 2000/1, of the effect of Bt cotton adoption in China, 1999.Main findings include:the production Bt cotton has positive crop yield impacts, shifting the crop yield frontier by nearly 10 percentBt cotton farmers increased their incomes by reducing use of pesticides and labour inputsBt cotton continues to have positive environmental and health
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  The role of agricultural technology in food and nutritional security in Africa

  Bioline, 2001

  This paper looks at some of the reasons for low productivity in African agriculture. It argues for increased investment in agricultural research and extension.The paper presents the argument that the development and utilization of profitable and environmentally friendly technology is an essential factor for the transformation of agriculture into a modern sector.
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  An integrated economic and social analysis to assess the impact of vegetable and fishpond technologies on poverty in rural Bangladesh

  International Food Policy Research Institute, 2003

  This study examines the poverty reduction implications of the introduction of three different agricultural technologies by government and NGOs in three rural sites across Bangladesh.The technologies looked at are: new vegetable seeds developed by AVRDC (the Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center) that were introduced in Saturia by a local NGO to women owning small amounts of land, base

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