Adoption Pathways for New Agricultural Technologies
Author : Mohammad Abdul Jabbar
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
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Adoption Pathways for New Agricultural Technologies
Author : Jabbar, M.A.
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 23,24 MB
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Changing Land Management
Author : David J. Pannell
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0643100385
Book Description
There is a rich and extensive history of research into factors that encourage farmers to change their land management practices, or inhibit them from doing so. Yet this research is often under-utilized in practice. Changing Land Managementprovides key insights from past and cutting-edge research to support decision-makers as they attempt to assist rural communities adapting to changed circumstances, such as new technologies, new environmental imperatives, new market opportunities or changed climate. Common themes are the need for an appreciation of the diversity of land managers and their contexts, of the diversity of factors that influence land management decisions, and of the challenges that face government programs that are intended to change land management.
Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century
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Publisher : National Academies
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 1997-09-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Book Description
Sensors, satellite photography, and multispectral imaging are associated with futuristic space and communications science. Increasingly, however, they are considered part of the future of agriculture. The use of advanced technologies for crop production is known as precision agriculture, and its rapid emergence means the potential for revolutionary change throughout the agricultural sector. Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century provides an overview of the specific technologies and practices under the umbrella of precision agriculture, exploring the full implications of their adoption by farmers and agricultural managers. The volume discusses how precision agriculture could dramatically affect decisionmaking in irrigation, crop selection, pest management, environmental issues, and pricing and market conditions. It also examines the geographical dimensions--farm, regional, national--of precision agriculture and looks at how quickly and how widely the agricultural community can be expected to adopt the new information technologies. Precision Agriculture in the 21st Century highlights both the uncertainties and the exciting possibilities of this emerging approach to farming. This book will be important to anyone concerned about the future of agriculture: policymakers, regulators, scientists, farmers, educators, students, and suppliers to the agricultural industry.
The Economics of Risk
Author : Donald J. Meyer
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0880992689
Book Description
Annotation This book contains a collection of papers that address various aspects of risk, including riskmanagement and how it is applied to decisionmaking and the impact of risk on markets
Investing in People
Author : Theodore W. Schultz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 18,23 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520047877
Book Description
Argues that healthy, educated people are the world's most important resource and that the world's poor have not been adequately helped by foreign aid because of the misunderstandings of donor governments
Farm Profits and Adoption of Precision Agriculture
Author : U.s. Department of Agriculture
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2017-02-15
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ISBN : 9781543136883
Book Description
Precision agriculture (PA) and its suite of information technologies-such as soil and yield mapping using a global positioning system (GPS), GPS tractor guidance systems, and variable-rate input application-allow farm operators to fine-tune their production practices. Access to detailed, within-field information can decrease input costs and increase yields. USDA's Agricultural Resource Management Survey shows that these PA technologies were used on roughly 30 to 50 percent of U.S. corn and soybean acres in 2010-12. Previous studies suggest that use of PA is associated with higher profits under certain conditions, but aggregate estimates of these gains have not been available. In this report, a treatment-effects model is developed to estimate factors associated with PA technology adoption rates and the impacts of adoption on profits. Labor and machinery used in production and certain farm characteristics, like farm size, are associated with adoption as well as with two profit measures, net returns and operating profits. The impact of these PA technologies on profits for U.S. corn producers is positive, but small. Keywords: Crop production information technologies, precision agriculture, variablerate technology, soil tests, global positioning system maps, guidance systems.
Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development
Author : Franz W. Gatzweiler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 2016-02-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319257188
Book Description
The aim of the book is to present contributions in theory, policy and practice to the science and policy of sustainable intensification by means of technological and institutional innovations in agriculture. The research insights re from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The purpose of this book is to be a reference for students, scholars and practitioners inthe field of science and policy for understanding and identifying agricultural productivity growth potentials in marginalized areas.
Alley Farming
Author : B. T. Kang
Publisher : IITA
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 16,22 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Agroforestry
ISBN : 0333600800
Book Description
The Tropical Agriculturalist is a series of practical field guides and textbooks for: producers, farmers and farm managers, agricultural extension officers agricultural diploma, degree and vocational students, teachers and lecturers, senior secondary students, as reference books, adult education, rural and community development programmes.
Gender in Agriculture
Author : Agnes R. Quisumbing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 15,6 MB
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 940178616X
Book Description
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) produced a 2011 report on women in agriculture with a clear and urgent message: agriculture underperforms because half of all farmers—women—lack equal access to the resources and opportunities they need to be more productive. This book builds on the report’s conclusions by providing, for a non-specialist audience, a compendium of what we know now about gender gaps in agriculture.
