Product Description: In recent years, there has been growing attention devoted to the implementation of information and communication technology in agriculture and rural development. While evidence has linked ICT to an increase in gross domestic product, it has prompted a global dedication to the research of the socio-economic benefits, trade-offs, and policy implications of ICT consumption in developing countries...read more

Product Description: This volume emphasizes that demands for new agricultural sustainable technologies may not be realized merely by the application scientific knowledge, but would require a combination of scientific inputs and the indigenous knowledge of the farming community.

Product Description: Low external-input technology (or LEIT) is an increasingly prominent subject in discussions of sustainable agriculture. There are growing calls for self-sufficient agriculture in an era experiencing diminishing returns from reliance upon expensive synthetic pesticides and fertilizers...read more

Product Description: Crop biotechnology could boost global food production in a sustainable way. However, the economic repercussions of biotechnology for developing countries are largely unknown and have been the subject of acute controversy over the last few years...read more

Product Description: In 1997, over 700 million people are hungry. By 2025, the population of the developing countries alone will be approximately seven billion. This book makes a compelling case for a second green revolution, which builds upon the successful technological transformation and yield gains of the first, but which focuses on a programme of broad-based agricultural development that not only delivers food security but creates employment and income...read more

Product Description: Women's indigenous technical knowledge and innovative solutions to problems are in evidence across the whole range of food cycle technologies. This book highlights the broad range of expertise that exists in rural areas. The book first gives a brief account of women's indigenous technical knowledge, and its extent...read more

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Product Description: In the late 1960s agricultural economists Vernon Ruttan and Yujiro Hayami introduced "induced innovation theory" to explain how technological changes could be effected in developing and developed agricultural economies. Bruce Koppel brings together a groyp of economists and sociologists - including Ruttan and Hayami themselves - to assess how well the theory has weathered criticism and met the challenge of explaining institutional change in agriculture...read more

Product Description: Examines how biotechnology is likely to affect the relative competitive positions of developing countries' agriculture. Is based on work carried out in Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, and Thailand.

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Looks at the problems faced by farmers in underdeveloped countries, discusses their local farm economy, and describes what can be done to improve Third World agriculture