Considerable social science research has been carried out in recent years on agricultural
change among peasant farmers in developing countries. This research has been noteworthy …

Many development projects have sought to remove some of these constraints by introducing
facilities to provide credit, information, the orderly supply of necessary and complementary …

A worldwide system of crop germplasm conservation has been developed around ex situ
preservation This system is based on a dual mandate of conservation and development; and …

First published in 1989, this book deals with the impact of cereal production upon the Third
World, specifically 'Modern Varieties'(MVs). Using evidence from plant breeding, economics …

This paper analyses the choice of a farmer to be an innovator, an early adopter or a laggard
(an adopter of mature technologies or a non-adopter) in the adoption of innovations that are …

A model of divisible technology adoption under incomplete information dissemination and
output uncertainty is developed. We identify economic and subjective factors affecting …

Compilation, conference papers, research reports on crop insurance for agricultural
development in developed countries and developing countries-considers farmers' and …

Traditional agricultural systems in less developed countries (LDCs) maintain not only the
germplasm of local varieties of ancestral crop populations (landraces) but also the human …

This study offers an empirical framework for analyzing farmers' joint decisions to adopt
organic farming practices and to seek technical (ie, farming) information from various …

Water price reforms are increasingly being used to encourage improvements in irrigation
efficiency through technology adoption. A microparameter approach based on field‐level …