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Promises and realities of community-based agricultural extension
In view of the market failures and the state failures inherent in providing agricultural extension, community-based approaches, which involve farmers' groups, have gained increasing importance in recent years as a third way to provide this
Access, adoption, and diffusion
This paper assesses long-term impacts of vegetable and polyculture fish production technologies on a variety of measures of household and individual well-being in Bangladesh.
This paper discusses micro-level practices for adapting to climate change that are available to small-scale farmers in Africa.
Estimating the impact of agricultural technology on poverty reduction in rural Nigeria
It has often been argued that new agricultural technologies lead to poverty reduction.
Promising approaches to address the needs of poor female farmers
"Recognizing that “gender matters,” many development interventions have aimed to close the gender gap in access to resources, both human and physical, and to address the specific needs of female farmers.
Le monde doit accélérer ses progrès dans la réduction de la pauvreté et de la faim.
The Knowledge, Capacity, and Innovation Division (formerly ISNAR) works to improve the functioning of food and agriculture systems by facilitating knowledge management—the creation, accumulation, sharing, and utilization of knowledge—and developin
Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever.
El mundo necesita acelerar mucho su progreso en reducir el hambre y la pobreza.
Por lo general, las iniciativas para elaborar políticas relativas a la agricultura y la salud pública se llevan a cabo de una forma paralela e inconexa, a pesar de que las acciones conjuntas y coherentes en ambos sectores podrían generar grandes b
Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever.