Author : H. K. Jain
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
The increasing role of science; Why genetic reconstruction? Policy decisions for reorganization of agricultural research; Impact of the new technology; Sub-Saharan countries and potential of agricultural research; Strategy for scientific transformation of agriculture in Africa.
Author : Theodore William Schultz
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Agricultural innovations
ISBN :
Author : John W. Mellor
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 25,28 MB
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3319652591
This book examines the role of agriculture in the economic transformation of developing low- and middle-income countries and explores means for accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction. In this volume, Mellor measures by household class the employment impact of alternative agricultural growth rates and land tenure systems, and impact on cereal consumption and food security. The book provides detailed analysis of each element of agricultural modernization, emphasizing the central role of government in accelerated growth in private sector dominated agriculture. The book differs from the bulk of current conventional wisdom in its placement of the non-poor small commercial farmer at the center of growth, and explains how growth translates into poverty reduction. This new book is a follow up to Mellor’s classic, prize-winning text, The Economics of Agricultural Development. Listed as a Best Books of 2017: Economics by Financial Times.
Author : H.K. Jain
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Balogh
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 1963
Category : International economic relations
ISBN :
A little girl's experiences when her grandmother spends some time in a nursing home help her to have a better feeling about those helping places.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 2002-03-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309170346
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requested that the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Research Council (NRC) convene a panel of experts to examine whether publicly funded agricultural research has influenced the structure of U.S. agriculture and, if so, how. The Committee to Review the Role of Publicly Funded Agricultural Research on the Structure of U.S. Agriculture was asked to assess the role of public-sector agricultural research on changes in the size and numbers of farms, with particular emphasis on the evolution of very-large-scale operations.
Author : Gudrun Kochendörfer-Lucius
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821371282
The book highlights proceedings from the Berlin 2008: Agriculture and Development conference held in preparation for the World Development Report 2008.
Author : International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Historically, agriculture was seen as a contribution that helped induce industrial growth and structural transformation of the economy. The structural transformation where the share of agriculture in gross domestic product (GDP) and employment declines as per capita income rises is well documented. Classical theorists, led by Lewis (1954), viewed economic development as a growth process of relocating factors of production from an agricultural sector characterized by low productivity and the use of traditional technology to a modern industrial sector with higher productivity. Economic transformation is triggered when agriculture realizes enough surplus in the form of food and commodities and product and factor markets begin to integrate across space, and workers begin to move out of agriculture to meet the demands of a growing industrial sector.
Author : Benton F. Massell
Publisher :
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 46,32 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Traditional farming
ISBN :
Author : Herbert S. Klein
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2023-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3031385896
This book comprehensively examines the development of Brazilian agriculture by focusing on the crops which evolved from national products to international commodities on a massive scale. It traces the transformation of Brazil from a country with low-yield levels in 1950 to its current position as a leading world producer. The first section of the book examines the modernization of Brazilian agriculture through a government programme which transformed traditional agriculture through subsidized credit, guaranteed prices, stock purchases, land utilization laws, modern research, new technology and major support for exports. It also explores the changing structures of agricultural production and farm ownership over time, analysing national censuses from 1920 to 2017 to illustrate the increasing efficiency of Brazil’s agricultural workers. The book then discusses the history and evolution of the major Brazilian crops in detail, starting with the newer export crops such as soybeans, maize and cotton, before focusing on the traditional sugar and coffee industries. The final section of the book examines two other major areas of agroindustry: forestry and the evolution of the pastoral industries, as well as the growth of a meat exporting sector. The authors also explore questions of sustainability in the context of today’s climate challenges, and the role of Brazilian agriculture in the world market going forward. This wide-ranging study will be of interest to a range of academics, including those working in agricultural economics, economic history, the history of Latin America and the history of agriculture more broadly.
