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| Siamwalla, Ammar; Haykin, Stephen. |
| Because rice is the staple food of the majority of the world’s population, particularly of the poorer people of developing countries, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) was founded to generate new technology to rapidly expand the supply of rice. IRRI has achieved extraordinary success, not only through the development of specific varieties of rice such as IR8, but by demonstrating approaches to rice cultivation that have had profound influence on human welfare and on the environment within rice research and production take place. The international Food Policy Research (IFPRI), as the policy-oriented center in the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research (CGIAR) system, has maintained a long-term collaborative research... |
| Tipo: Report |
Palavras-chave: Rice trade; Crop Production/Industries; Marketing. |
| Ano: 1983 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/42178 |
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| Delgado, Christopher L.; Siamwalla, Ammar. |
| Farm-level diversification, the adoption of alternative income-generating activities by farm households, is rarely deemed an explicit objective by economists. Where agricultural transformation has occurred, markets function well and agriculture is a waning portion of overall national product, such as the rice growing regions of Southeast Asia, farm diversification might be a desirable outcome of pursuing a market liberalization objective, but is probably not an end in itself. In Sub-Saharan Africa, where these conditions often do not hold, development depends on pro-actively commercializing rural areas. African farmers tend to diversify their production activities widely to mitigate risk, but to only produce one or two exportable commodities. High... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Agricultural Finance; Farm Management. |
| Ano: 1997 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/91855 |
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