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| Hudson, Darren; Hite, Diane. |
| Precision application technology has been an important topic in agriculture in recent years. This technology has the promise to improve farm management through improved information and control over in-field variability of soil characteristics and productivity. Despite this apparent promise, recent studies have shown that adoption has been low. However, little is known about the adoption of this technology in Mississippi or the reasons for or against adoption as seen through the eyes of the producer. This survey was designed to collect basic information on producer perceptions about precision agriculture technology and to assess potential reasons for or against adoption. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/15787 |
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| Dittoh, Saa; Abizari, Abdul-Razak; Akuriba, Margaret A.. |
| The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) underscore an overriding importance of human development for sustained economic, social, political and other development, and nutrition is the beginning of human development. Nutrition has, however, not been viewed as a development imperative in many African countries. Agricultural and health policies, projects and programmes and the conduct of agricultural and health research in most African countries do not consider nutrition to any significant degree. The paper argues that food production, poverty, malnutrition and health are very intricately linked and the result of that linkage is probably the most important determinant of development and, thus, the realization of the MDGs in Africa. It also argues that it is... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; International Relations/Trade; Marketing; Production Economics; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52217 |
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| Boissin, Denis. |
| Modern environmental issues imply that decision-makers have the capacity to take into account possibly conflicting information from distinct domains, such as science and economics. As the development of technology increases the temporal and spatial scopes of risks, decision-makers can no longer consider economic and scientific information separately but should encourage experts to work together. Boundary organizations, institutions that cross the gap between two different domains, are able to act beyond the boundaries while remaining accountable to each side (Guston, 2001). By encouraging a flow of information across the boundaries, they permit an exchange to take place, while maintaining the authority of each domain (Cash et al., 2003; Clark et al.,... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Decision-making; Opinion; Agent-based simulation; Multi-agent; Boundary organization; Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; International Development; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/53532 |
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| Ulimwengu, John M.; Funes, Jose; Headey, Derek D.; You, Liang. |
| Given its vast land resources and favorable water supply, the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) natural agricultural potential is immense. However, the economic potential of the sector is handicapped by one of the most dilapidated transport systems in the developing world (World Bank, 2006). Road investments are therefore a high priority in the government's investment plans, and those of its major donors. Whilst these are encouraging signs, very little is known about how the existing road network constrains agricultural and rural development, and how these new road investments would address these constraints. To inform this issue the present paper primarily employs GIS-based data to assess the impact of market access on agricultural and rural... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Infrastructure; Market access; Road and river transport; Agricultural production; Poverty.; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty; Production Economics. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49292 |
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