The Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) was a recent government intervention to reposition agriculture in Nigeria. Feedback on the intervention from various stakeholders is critical to ensure that to provide direction for future policy thrust in agriculture sector. Therefore, the study investigated ...
The transformation of the Dutch agricultural research system: An unfinished agenda The Dutch agricultural system has been transformed profoundly during the past 25 years. Changes in the structure of the agricultural sector, advancement in... J Roseboom,H Rutten - 《World Development》...
Changes in the structure of the agricultural sector, advancement in science, and more general political and ideological changes are the main forces driving this transformation. The paper focuses in particular on the effects of these changes on the institutional context within which the system operates...
This paper seeks to draw a research agenda for unveiling the underlying bottlenecks and possibilities for improving the agricultural total factor productivity in the European Union (EU). To this aim, the paper first surveys the key challenges for the modern agricultural economy. Then, the case of...
A policy agenda for pro-poor agricultural growth World Development, 32 (2004), pp. 73-89 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar FAO, 2011 FAO, 2011. FAOSTAT (producer prices, production). In: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (Ed.), Rome. Google Scholar Fole...
the existing scholarship in the field. This section firstly elaborates the social-environmental setting of the study area, followed by climate change impacts and indigenous adaptation efforts. The final section concludes the research work and recommends for policy feedback and further research agenda. ...
To close this gap, this study analyses the effects agricultural policies such as the Agricultural Transformation Agenda’s E-wallet scheme, Fadama, and Farmers’ Field School (FFS) have on the adoption of sustainable agricultural practices such as crop diversification, adoption of fertiliser trees, ...
Agriculture provides a wide range of ecosystem services and has the potential to contribute to biodiversity conservation. In Japan, many of the resources associated with agroecosystems are threatened by farmland abandonment. Identifying where and to what
This also implies that increasing resource use efficiencies can never be the single item on the sustainability agenda, since that does not guarantee that the carrying capacity of the earth's system is not exceeded. Efforts of agricultural, governmental and research organizations have been and still ...
biocontrol agents (Fig.1). We focus on NMP effects individually and in synergy with other threats from the organism to farm and the landscape scale. After highlighting important research gaps, we close with a research agenda to avoid potentially severe, yet unrecognized threats to global food ...