Technology is the basis for sustainable agricultural growth. Enhanced agricultural productivity and growth depend, to a large extent, upon the widespread adoption of appropriate technologies by farmers.

Adoption of productivity- and income-enhancing agricultural technologies is conspicuously low in Africa south of the Sahara.

Potential for Group-Based Approaches

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.

"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.

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.

Learning from successes in agricultural development is now more urgent than ever.

Gender norms are an important constraint to increasing agricultural productivity.

The authors address questions such as: (1) how do parents allocate land and education between sons and daughters? (2) how do changing returns to land and human capital affect parents' investments in children?

This study attempts to analyze changing patterns of land transfers and schooling investments by gender over three generations in customary land areas of Ghana's Western Region.

The previous sections have highlighted the importance of assets as a determinant of bargaining power within marriage. Both formal and informal institutions underlie asset accumulation and provide the basis for property rights.