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| Laker-Ojok, Rita. |
| The study which follows is an ex-ante analysis of expected returns to investment in agricultural research on groundnuts and sesame in Uganda. Studies have shown that it generally takes a minimum of six to ten years for new technologies to begin to have an impact on agricultural production practices. In the case of Uganda, Michigan State University was asked to measure the impact of a program which only began the process of rehabilitating the collapsed national agricultural research system in 1985 and began support for commodity research on groundnuts and sesame as recently as 1989 and 1991. As a result, the assessment which follows relies upon the projection of expected future benefits. While every effort has been taken to make reasonable projections based... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Food security; Food policy; Oilseeds; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Downloads July 2008-June 2009: 13; R11. |
| Ano: 1994 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/54708 |
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| Laker-Ojok, Rita. |
| This paper evaluates two recently implemented strategies to control land use conflict and overgrazing in Kajiado district of southern Kenya, stressing the importance of analyzing attempts to alter traditional pastoralist production systems in terms of the "complex ethno-ecological mosaic in which political power allocates access to strategic resources". A situation, structure, performance paradigm is applied to the problem. Factors central to the situation which underlie the issue of overgrazing are grounded in the ecological and historical context. Highly unpredictable rainfall, repeated drought, and an increasingly constricted resource base form the primary constraints of the Masai production system. In response, complex cultural adaptations and herd... |
| Tipo: Thesis or Dissertation |
Palavras-chave: Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 1980 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11021 |
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