Impact of Science on African Agriculture and Food Security

Impact of Science on African Agriculture and Food Security
Author: P. Anandajayasekeram
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2007
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1845932676

The need for agricultural research resources in the developing world cannot be underestimated, but the availability of such resources is often poor due to lack of funding and investment. In order for Africa and other such developing countries to achieve productivity in agriculture - vital to food security, poverty reduction and sustainable management of natural resources - investment and policy development needs to be assessed. This book, a joint effort from IFPRI, ILRI and the Kellogg Foundation, explores the importance of impact assessment studies in Africa, and assembles important evidence to pave the way for further, much needed investment in agricultural research all over the developing world.

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: International Service for National Agricultural Research
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1998
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Economic and Social Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology

Economic and Social Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology
Author: Robert E. Evenson
Publisher: CABI
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2002-07-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780851997889

There are currently many controversial socioeconomic issues concerned with the development and implementation of agricultural biotechnology. This book presents selected revised and edited papers from the fourth and fifth meetings of the International Consortium on Agricultural Biotechnology Research, held in Italy in 2000 and 2001.

Impact of Project Intervention on Rural Households in Nepal

Impact of Project Intervention on Rural Households in Nepal
Author: Lila Bahadur Karki
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2004
Genre: Agricultural innovations
ISBN:

Obtaining enough food for survival is a fundamental challenges in most of the developing countries. The livestock sector is of paramount importance to sustain the agrarian production, where mixed farming system is practiced. The possibility of increasing the consumption of animal protein in such countries requires an acceleration of the livestock's productivity. One of the most feasible solutions in this regard is to enhance the efficiency of livestock farmers where intervention of development projects play decisive role. This book presents a stringent analyses of such interventions on socio-economic and environmental aspects at households level. The major issue is to isolate the impact on innovation in smallholder peasants, food self-sufficiency, natural resource management, institutional development, gender equity and production efficiency due to such intervention, and its overall effect on the living standard of beneficiaries and other stakeholders of the community. Besides, spillover impact was considered in terms of physical changes due to combined effect of activities transferred into the periphery as percolation. A With-Without project evaluation approach was applied as a research methodology. The findings are based on the primary information collected through household survey. The collected cross sectional information was analyzed using descriptive statistics, econometric models and qualitative analyses. The empirical findings obtained from such analyses confirm a substantial contribution of a project intervention as long as the activities are institutionalized for the sustainability of the accrued benefit over time.