Pub Date : 1988-01-01DOI: 10.1016/0269-7475(88)90026-8
Glenn C.W. Ames
Explanations of lagging productivity in African agriculture generally are divided between proponents of the failure of agricultural policy to stimulate peasant farmers and proponents of the lack of appropriate technology argument. Both explanations assume that human capital is available to implement changes in agricultural policy, research and extension activities. However, trained scientists, administrators and extension specialists are scarce, especially in the Sahelian countries. Until the pool of human resources in agricultural sciences reaches a critical mass, neither technology nor oriented programs for agricultural development will have much impact on African food production, distribution and consumption.
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Pub Date : 1988-01-01DOI: 10.1016/0269-7475(88)90059-1
W. Richard Goe, Martin Kenney
{"title":"The political economy of the privatization of agricultural information: The case of the United States","authors":"W. Richard Goe, Martin Kenney","doi":"10.1016/0269-7475(88)90059-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0269-7475(88)90059-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100060,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Administration and Extension","volume":"28 2","pages":"81-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0269-7475(88)90059-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72283026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1988-01-01DOI: 10.1016/0269-7475(88)90015-3
C.S. Barnard
{"title":"Farm planning with linear programming: Concepts and practice","authors":"C.S. Barnard","doi":"10.1016/0269-7475(88)90015-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0269-7475(88)90015-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100060,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Administration and Extension","volume":"29 2","pages":"Pages 158-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0269-7475(88)90015-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75833981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1988-01-01DOI: 10.1016/0269-7475(88)90062-1
T.J. Harding, T.R. Franks
{"title":"The matrix management of irrigation projects: Integrated management of major irrigation schemes in Sri Lanka","authors":"T.J. Harding, T.R. Franks","doi":"10.1016/0269-7475(88)90062-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/0269-7475(88)90062-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100060,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Administration and Extension","volume":"28 2","pages":"133-146"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0269-7475(88)90062-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72283024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1988-01-01DOI: 10.1016/0269-7475(88)90007-4
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Pub Date : 1988-01-01DOI: 10.1016/0269-7475(88)90040-2
R.H. Ellis
{"title":"Gene Banks and the World's Food","authors":"R.H. Ellis","doi":"10.1016/0269-7475(88)90040-2","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0269-7475(88)90040-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100060,"journal":{"name":"Agricultural Administration and Extension","volume":"28 3","pages":"Pages 241-242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1988-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0269-7475(88)90040-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"95838662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 1988-01-01DOI: 10.1016/0269-7475(88)90023-2
G. Thiele, J. Farrington
Patterns of resource allocation are examined in Bolivian lowlands farming during the early to mid-1980s, when longstanding problems of poor targeting of official intervention were compounded by the breakdown of market allocation mechanisms owing to hyperinflation. Each of Santa Cruz's eight principal agricultural commodities is produced by farmers having distinct ethnic, locational and farm-size characteristics. The success of corresponding Producers' Organisations in negotiating with the authorities over subsidised allocations of credit and foreign exchange, and over product prices is shown to depend partly on these characteristics, but also on the features of the product market faced by each group, and on the extent to which current production technologies require imported inputs. Patron-client relations postulated in earlier work as a mainspring of resource allocation are shown to be an incomplete explanation of observed patterns. These patterns give cause for concern, possibly on efficiency and certainly on equity grounds: from negotiations in credit, foreign exchange and price arenas, large commercial farmers secured the highest net gain per farm and per dollar of gross value added. Official intervention should be reduced in scale and focused more sharply, and market mechanisms strengthened.
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