Book Description
Background to the study; Farm level impacts of new technologies; The dynamics of technology adoption; Assessing the benefits of new technologies.
Author : Colin Barlow
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 36,99 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9711040794
Background to the study; Farm level impacts of new technologies; The dynamics of technology adoption; Assessing the benefits of new technologies.
Author : Jayne T. MacLean
Publisher :
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN :
Author : W. W. Shaner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 2019-03-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429704933
In recent years, policy makers have been paying more attention to the problems of small farmers in developing countries with the idea of increasing their pro-duction and standard of living. The policy makers' objec-tives are twofold: I 1 I to help those whose welfare is materially below the rest of society, and 121 to help a coun-try increase its agricultural production. With adequate agricultural policies, these two objectives are mutually reinforcing. For example, increased food production gives farm households additional food for consumption and surpluses for sale. Farmers can then use the money from these sales to buy items they do not produce, and the buyers of farm products benefit from the increased sup-plies.
Author : Michael P. Collinson
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 36,62 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : 9789251043110
This book provides a detailed history of farming systems research (FSR). While it includes the application of FSR to developed country agriculture, its main focus is on FSR in its original role, with small scale, resource-poor farmers in less developed countries. There are some 40 contributions from nearly 50 contributors from 20 countries, illustrating both the diversity and yet the coherence of FSR. The five parts of the book cover: (1) FSR - understanding farmers and their farming (FSR origins and perspectives; understanding farming systems); (2) the applications of farming systems research (FSR in technology choice and development; FSR in extension and policy formulation); (3) institutional commitment to FSR (FSR: some institutional experiences in national agricultural research; dimensions of the organization of FSR; training for FSR); (4) FSR: the professional dimension (regional and international associations; FSR and the professional disciplines); and (5) cutting edge methods, abiding issues and the future for FSR.
Author : John A. Dixon
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251046272
A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the main farming systems of the six major developing regions of the world.
Author : Raul Tupaz Repulda
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Agricultural development projects
ISBN :
Author : Jayne T. MacLean
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN :
Author : W. R. Schmehl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 33,35 MB
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000309053
This collection offers a comprehensive view of the commonalities and diversities of the farming systems research and development (FSR&D) approaches being applied around the world. The authors–among the leading practitioners in FSR&D–discuss conceptual frameworks, research methodology, data collection, and several ongoing FSR&D programs. The book is a must for anyone interested in gaining a concise, yet broad view of this new and growing field of research and its importance to small-scale farming in developing countries.
Author : Jeffrey R Jones
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000311864
The publication of this book has required the cooperation of many people along the way. From its very conception, the project of bringing together experiences from ongoing Farming Systems Research projects has faced a problem of communication due to the dispersal of the participants. Dr. William Partridge and Lynne Goldstein were instrumental in the initial presentation of the symposium on Social Science participation in Farming Systems Research at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Ben Wallace has done an admirable job not only as editor but 8s a ilpoint m-an"- throughout the process or organizirig the conference and preparing the manuscript. He deserves credit tor expediting countless actMties that could never have otherwise been accomplished because of the vagaries or international mails and telecommunications.
Author : Jane Potter Gates
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN :