While technology continues to be seen as a key element in the move to sustainable
development, international efforts around technology to support sustainable development …

Background Agricultural systems are amended ecosystems with a variety of properties.
Modern agroecosystems have tended towards high through-flow systems, with energy …

Ensuring food security has become an issue of key importance to countries with different
degrees of economic development, while the agricultural sector plays a strategic role in …

This paper evaluates the potential impact of adoption of improved legume technologies on
rural household welfare measured by consumption expenditure in rural Ethiopia and …

This paper revisits the decades-old puzzle of the inverse plot-size productivity relationship
(IR), which states that land productivity decreases as plot size increases. While existing …

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times-fundamental
to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse …

After 20 years of neglect by international donors, agriculture is now again in the headlines
because high food prices are increasing food insecurity and poverty. In the coming years, it …

This study aims at shedding some light on the potential impact of agricultural technology
adoption on poverty alleviation strategies. It does so through an empirical investigation of …

Interest in agriculture for growth and poverty reduction reawakened in the early 2000s made
all the keener by the sudden rise in cereals prices on world markets in 2007–08. But is it still …

Twenty-percent of the world's population, or 1.2 billion live on less than 1perday;70%
oftheseareruraland90%areinAsiaandsub-SaharanAfrica.Research-ledtechnologicalchangeinagriculturegenera …