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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"Agricultural research"”.
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Meeting Development Objectives with Agricultural Research: Priority Setting in Zimbabwe
… to make choices in Zimbabwe's publicly funded research is heightened. Adoption of quantitative priority setting methods help improve the objectivity of decision-making while fostering consistency of research priorities with the attainment of research system objectives This study develops and …
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Planting the seeds of biotechnology : interest group influence on USDA agricultural research
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1992.
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Agricultural research practice for environmental management and poverty reduction : the case of CIAT
… the characteristics of a particular network of research institutions known as the CG System, as mediated by the agricultural technology developed by the latter. Drawing on recent developments in the theory of innovation, the thesis argues that the characteristics of the CG System responsible for …
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Impacts of investment in agricultural research on value-added for selected commodity groups
One method of estimating returns to agricultural research as an alternative to the commonly used aggregate output production function approach is to calculate returns based on estimates from a value-added production function. Value added is the value of consumed inputs in the production process …
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Technology Transfer in Egypt: An Analysis of the Roles of Agricultural Research and Extension
… the technology transfer process between the Agricultural Research Center and the Extension Service in Egypt. The study had two main purposes. First, it was intended to identify and examine human, organizational, and operational factors influencing both the role of research in transferring new …
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The Economic Benefits of the South African Agricultural Research Council’s Wheat Breeding Program: 1992–2015
… left 22% of households food insecure. As such, agricultural research in South Africa is needed specifically in plant breeding to increase yields and help mitigate future food insecurity. To fill this need, the South African government funds the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), which conducts …
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The effects of agricultural price policies on the funding of agricultural research: Chile 1960-1988
… of price policies and expenditures on agricultural research in their efforts to enhance the performance of the agricultural sector. These two policy instruments, under changing political environments, have had important distributional implications for agricultural producers and …
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Agricultural research in Senegal: Economic surplus evaluation of the adoption of variety La Fleur 11 by peanut farmers
… is to increase production through agricultural research and the development of peanut varieties that are adapted to the environmental constraints in Senegal. The last variety developed is La Fleur 11, which is very drought tolerant. The purpose of the study is to assess the economic …
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A study of the human and financial resources utilized by agricultural research and extension systems worldwide and their relationship with agricultural development
This worldwide study of agricultural research and extension systems was the first of its kind ever completed. The study had four objectives: (a) to determine the number of agricultural research and extension personnel worldwide and then, by using specific human resource measures, to determine the …
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Is the Share of Agricultural Maintenance Research Rising? Implications for Future Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture
Agricultural research is susceptible to research deterioration due to biological, climatic, and economic forces. Research deteriorates as the base conditions it addresses change which leaves the resulting information or technology less effective, efficient, productive, and/or relevant. Maintenance …
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A history of Mount Makulu Central Research Station 1950-1980
… study is an attempt to examine the history of agricultural research in Zambia. To do this effectively, Mount Makulu Central Research Station has been chosen. This is because it has always been the most important agricultural research station in the country.The study is divided into five …
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Evaluation of the importance and magnitude of agricultural maintenance research in the United States
… States has invested substantial resources in agricultural research since the Morrill and the Hatch Acts. These investments have made American agriculture one of the most productive in the world. Several studies have evaluated U.S. agricultural research. However, few of these studies have …
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Economic Benefits of Research Cooperation: The Case of the Regional Maize Program for Central America and the Caribbean
Public investment in agricultural research in developing countries has decreased in recent years challenging policy-makers to find strategies for using research funds more efficiently. Efficiency will determine which research institutions will survive. Technology spillovers are a key factor to the …
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Spatial variability of hydraulic properties as affected by physical properties of selected soil types in South Africa
… of Venda Experimental farm and Roodeplaat, Agricultural Research Council farm). The objectives of this study were to determine the spatial variability of soil water content, water infiltration and hydraulic conductivity on selected soils. Field measurements were done on a 20 m × 20 m. Soil …
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Two Essays on Evaluation Challenges in Integrated Pest Management: An Evaluation Design for the Onion ipmPIPE and Identifying Women's Crops and Agricultural Technologies
… to measure benefits accruing to women from agricultural research using secondary data. Donors, governments and others are interested in determining how benefits from agricultural research accrue to women. We develop a three-step framework to identify women's crops and technologies. In step …
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Identification and Characterization of Physiological Traits Related to Productivity of Maize (Multiple Regression, Leaf Senescence, Inheritance, Green Score)
Scientists involved in agricultural research need to concentrate research efforts the most important traits related to productivity. Our objectives were to: (a) evaluate genotypic variation and the relationship of a large array of physiological traits to maize (Zea mays L.) grain yield and stalk …
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Program participants' knowledge and perceptions of effectiveness of the French Quarter Formosan Termite Program
… is in the New Orleans area. In 1998, the LSU Agricultural Center, a statewide agricultural research and extension campus of Louisiana State University, in cooperation with the Agricultural Research Service, began a large area pilot test in New Orleans’ French Quarter. The goal of the program …
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Three essays on the adoption and impacts of improved maize varieties in Ethiopia
Public agricultural research has been conducted in Africa for decades and has generated numerous crop technologies, while little is understood on how agricultural research affects the poor and vulnerable groups such as children, and how farmers' perceptions affect their adoption decisions. This …
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Decomposing the grid
… American landscape chronicles the dreams of an agricultural nation through a series of regular lines en-scribed on a flat plane. Each 6 mile x 6 mile square frames a lose-lose situation in which government subsidies encourage intensive monocultural production resulting in loss of topsoil, …
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Evaluation Of Selected Spectral Vegetation Indices In Senescent Rangeland Canopy Using Landsat Imagery
… Robel pole visual obstruction reading methods. Researchers with the USDA Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory in Mandan, ND, recently established statistical relationships between photosynthetic vegetation (PV), NPV and spectral vegetation indices …
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