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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Agricultural technology adoption"”.
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Agricultural Technology Adoption and Adaptation under Climate Change: Microevidence from Niger
… will require an estimated 50 percent increase in agricultural production. Farmers in in the Sahel are exposed to a highly variable weather over time, and to their limited adaptive capacity, therefore often use livestock as income generator, export earnings, and as insurance against weather risk. …
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Socio-Economic Determinants of Modern Agricultural Technology Adoption in Multiple Food Crops and Its Impact on Productivity and Food Availability at the Farm-Level: A Case Study from South-Eastern Nigeria
… range of socio-economic factors influencing the adoption of modern agricultural technology in multiple food crops and the corresponding impacts on productivity and food availability at the farm-level in South-eastern Nigeria. In this study, three major food crops (i.e., rice, yam and cassava) and …
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Essays on Development and Agricultural Technology Choice
This dissertation examines barriers to agricultural technology adoption and their implications for economic development in low- and middle-income countries. It provides valuable insights for international development policy and agricultural economics by exploring constraints to technological …
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Three Essays in Development Economics: Savings Behavior and Risk; Health and Public Investments; and Sequential Technology Adoption
… risk and savings behavior in Zimbabwe, and agricultural technology adoption, and the impact of public investments on the economy and community health in Ethiopia. The first paper analyzes changes in per capita consumption and savings behavior in Zimbabwe before and after a range of financial …
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Three Essays on the Interactions between Agriculture and the Environment
… between agriculture and the environment: agricultural technology adoption and its environmental impacts (in the first essay), and weather shocks and their impacts on rural households in developing countries (in the second and third essays). The first essay proposes a multimarket …
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Farmer adoption of nitrogen modeling tools: perceived barriers and important factors
Agricultural nitrogen runoff contributes around 45% of nitrogen entering the Chesapeake Bay, significantly affecting its water quality. Despite various efforts, the 2025 water quality goal for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed has not yet been achieved. In-season nitrogen modeling tools (NMTs) help …
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Farmers’ Motivation and Biophysical Impact of using Cordia africana and Albizia coriaria on Coffee-Bean Intercrops in the Mt Elgon Region (Uganda)
… favour of annual crops. Additionally, long-term adoption of agroforestry has been negatively affected by an underlying culture of financial expectancy and highly subsidized extension by research and development programmes, leading to ‘pseudo adoption’. I contend that modernised agroforestry …
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Impact of cassava innovations on household productivity and welfare in Uganda
… its productivity remains inadequate due to low technology uptake, dysfunctional seed systems, poor farmer organisation and policy failures. Motivated by several problematized research gaps, this study carried out an empirical investigation to answer seven research questions: (a) what are the …
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Social norms, markets and land use in a developing country context
… three studies related to the processes of agricultural technology adoption, the development of land markets in the presence of social norms, and smallholder land use amid price uncertainty. The analysis presented in this dissertation focuses on two countries: Malawi and Ghana. In chapter …