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 Agricultural Development: Farmers, Farm Production and Farm Markets
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Edited By
Robert Evenson, Yale University, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Prabhu Pingali, FAO/UN, Rome, Italy
Included in series
Handbooks in Economics,
Audience
Graduate students, researchers and professionals working or interested in the area of agricultural economics
Contents
I Introduction
Overview: Robert E. Evenson and Prabhu Pingali
II Human Resources and Technology Mastery
Chapter 1 – Agriculture and
Human Capital in Economic Growth: Farmers, Schooling and Nutrition: Wallace Huffman and Peter F. Orazem
Chapter 2 - Extension: Gershon
Feder and Jock R. Anderson
III Invention and Innovation
Chapter 3 - The Role of International Agricultural Research in Contributing
to Global Food Security and Poverty Alleviation: the case of the CGIAR: Prabhu Pingali and Tim Kelley
Chapter 4 - Contributions of National
Agricultural Research Systems to Crop Productivity: Robert E. Evenson & Douglas Gollin
Chapter 5 - Livestock Productivity in Developing
Countries: An Assessment: Simeon Ehui, Alejandro Nin-Pratt and Samuel Benin
Chapter 6 - Agricultural Innovations: Investments and Incentives:
Brian D. Wright, Philip G. Pardey, Carol Nottenburg and Bonwoo Koo
Chapter 7 - Private Agricultural Research: Carl E. Pray, Keith Fuglie
and Daniel K.N. Johnson
Chapter 8 – Plant Biotechnology for Developing Countries: Robert Herdt, Gary Toenniessen and John O?Toole
IV
Markets, Institutions and Transaction Costs
Chapter 9 - Efficiency and Equity Effects of Land Markets: Keijiro Otsuka
Chapter 10 -
Labor: Decisions, Contracts and Organization: James Roumasset and Sang-Hyop Lee
Chapter 11 – Fertilizer and Other Farm Chemicals: Paul W. Heisey and George W. Norton
Chapter 12 – Agricultural Mechanization: Adoption Patterns and Economic Impact: Prabhu Pingali
Chapter
13 - Transformation: Thomas Reardon and C. Peter Timmer
Chapter 14 - Financial Markets: Christopher R. Udry and Jonathan Conning
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Natural Resources
Chapter 15 - Soil Quality and Agricultural Development: Pierre R. Crosson
Chapter 16 - The Economics of Water, Irrigation
and Development: David Zilberman and Karina Schoengold
Chapter 17 - Land Use: Forest, Agriculture and Biodiversity Competition: Roger
A. Sedjo and R. David Simpson
Chapter 18 - Past Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture: Robert O. Mendelsohn
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 846 pages, publication date: MAY-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-444-51873-6
ISBN-10: 0-444-51873-8
Imprint: NORTH-HOLLAND
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EUR 115
GBP 80
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Last update: 23 Jul 2008
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