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	Provedor de dados AgEcon (3) Autor Ball, V. Eldon (1) Fulginiti, Lilyan E. (1) Jayne, Thomas S. (1) Mugunieri, Godiah Lawrence (1) Muyanga, Milu (1) Nambiro, Elizabeth (1) Omiti, John M. (1) Plastina, Alejandro S. (1) Sun, Ling (1) Mais... Palavra-chave Extension services (3) Kenya (2) Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession (2) Cost function (1) Decentralization (1) O3 (1) O4 (1) Partnerships (1) Policy reform (1) Policy reforms (1) Privatization (1) Productivity (1) Productivity Analysis (1) Public R&D expenditure (1) Q18 (1) Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (1) Mais... Tipo do documento Conference Paper or Presentation (2) Working or Discussion Paper (1) Ano 2009 (1) 2006 (2) País United States (3) Idioma Inglês (3)		Ordenar por:  Relevância Autor Título Ano Registros recuperados: 3 Primeira ... 1 ... Última Agricultural Extension in Kenya: Practice and Policy Lessons AgEcon Muyanga, Milu; Jayne, Thomas S.. A consensus exists that extension services, if functioning effectively, improve agricultural productivity through providing farmers with information that helps them to optimize their use of limited resources. Variations in management practices and husbandry skills among small farmers in Kenya are very great. Tremendous poverty-reducing benefits could be reaped by bringing the production costs of the most inefficient farmers to mean productivity levels. Achieving these gains in maize production efficiency will depend on many factors, but extension is likely to be among the most important. Therefore, the costs to the nation of having an underperforming extension service – in terms of smallholder productivity, incomes, and poverty reduction, and the ability... Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper Palavras-chave: Extension services; Kenya; Policy reforms; Privatization; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession; Q18. Ano: 2006 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/55168 Decentralization and Access to Agricultural Extension Services in Kenya AgEcon Nambiro, Elizabeth; Omiti, John M.; Mugunieri, Godiah Lawrence. The form and content of decentralization has dominated development discourse and public sector reform agenda in Kenya in the last two decades. The case of agricultural extension service presents decentralization in a difficult context partly due to lack of information on its possible diverse impacts especially on resource poor farmers. This paper explores the effect of decentralization of agricultural extension on access, accountability and empowerment, and efficiency of delivering services to farmers. Secondary data, participatory research methods and primary data from a random sample of 250 farmers were used. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, multivariate analysis and logistic regression. The results show that there is improved access to... Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Extension services; Decentralization; Partnerships; Policy reform; Kenya; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession. Ano: 2006 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/25246 Impact of local public goods on agricultural productivity growth in the U.S. AgEcon Sun, Ling; Ball, V. Eldon; Fulginiti, Lilyan E.; Plastina, Alejandro S.. In this paper we revisit the issue on the impact of public R&D expenditure on US agricultural productivity growth. We estimate a dual cost function using a state-by-year panel data set. We construct the potential R&D “spillins” based on both geographical location and production mix. We also examine the role of the extension service, transportation network, and human capital in the process of technology dissemination. The results indicate that higher levels of local public goods, R&D spillins, extension activities, and an intensive transportation network decrease costs. The contributions to agricultural productivity from all series of R&D spillins are positive even though the social rate of return may differ. Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation Palavras-chave: Productivity; Public R&D expenditure; Cost function; Extension services; Productivity Analysis; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; O3; O4. Ano: 2009 URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49333 Registros recuperados: 3 Primeira ... 1 ... Última

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