This paper reviews hypotheses about the impacts of rural population growth on agriculture and natural resource management in developing countries and the implications for productivity, poverty, and natural resource conditions.
The objective of this study is to simulate the effect of population pressure, market integration, technological improvement and policy decisions on natural resource management in the hillsides of Honduras.
The number of higher-education institutions and the students enrolled in them has grown rapidly throughout Africa since the early 1960s.
Econometric studies of the effects of research on productivity have typically imposed arbitrary restrictions on the length and shape of the R&D lag profile.
Decentralization implies an increase in the number of stakeholders involved in the design and implementation of interventions.
Poverty in rural India has declined substantially in recent decades.
National agricultural research systems in Africa increased markedly in size throughout the past three decades, but from an especially small base.
A total of 294 studies of returns to agricultural R&D (including extension) were compiled and these studies provide 1,858 separate estimates of rates of return. This includes some extreme values, which are implausible.
It is widely believed that land tenure insecurity under a customary tenure system leads to socially inefficient resource allocation.
This study uses aerial photographs and survey data from sixty four parishes in east-central Uganda to identify the factors affecting conversion of woodlands and traditional grazing areas to agriculture.
Output in Chinese agriculture has grown rapidly for the last several decades, as reported by the Statistical System in China.
Concerns about harmful environmental impacts are frequently raised in research and policy debates about population growth in the hills and mountains of developing countries.
Developing countries have to allocate limited government resources for rural areas among different investment activities and regions to achieve the twin goals of productivity growth and poverty alleviation.
In this paper we describe how biophysical data can be used, in conjunction with agroecological concepts and multimarket economic models, to systematically evaluate the effects of agricultural R&D in ways that inform research priority setting a
This paper analyzes the macroeconomic assumptions, demand and supply parameters, and structures of the models used in projecting China's future food supply, demand, and trade.
This paper uses cross section-time series data on 57 communities in Malawi to determine statistically the factors determining changes in land use, tree cover, and crop yield.
Governments around the globe are trimming their support for agricultural R&D, giving greater scrutiny to the support that they do provide, and reforming the public agencies that fund, oversee, and carry out the research.
This paper explores the determinants of farmers' investments in indigenous soil and water conservation measures in the semi-arid tropics of India.
Markets for non-timber tree products (NTTPs) are widely viewed with great promise because of their potential for achieving a range of development objectives.