The Green Revolution, which bolstered agricultural yields and economic well-being in Asia Latin America beginning the 1960s, largely bypassed sub-Saharan Africa. We study first randomized controlled trial of a government-implemented input subsidy program (ISP) Africa intended to foment Revolution. find that this temporary for Mozambican maize farmers stimulates Revolution technology adoption le...

the historical experience of many developing countries show that many developing world has not paid enough attention and is not giving serious thought to its agricultural sector. in fact, nearly all the countries that have “undervalued” their agricultural sectors not only failed to grow rapidly, but they all encountered domestic food shortages, balance of payment crisis and some sort of politic...

Even in a world with adequate food supplies in global markets, which is the situation today, biotechnology offers important opportunities to developing countries in four domains. First, many agronomically hostile or degraded environments require major scientific breakthroughs to become productive agricultural systems. Few of these breakthroughs are likely to be achieved through traditional bree...

Unprecedented agricultural intensification and increased crop yield will be necessary to feed the burgeoning world population, whose global food demand is projected to double in the next 50 years. Although grain production has doubled in the past four decades, largely because of the widespread use of synthetic nitrogenous fertilizers, pesticides, and irrigation promoted by the "Green Revolution...

a r t i c l e i n f o The concept of sustainable economic growth is closely linked with the agricultural growth. This is especially true in the context of underdeveloped countries. Pakistan is a typical underdeveloped country that has huge labor force employed in conventional rural economy and more than half of the population relies on agriculture for subsistence. The study examines the agricul...

Two important intellectual developments since World War II have only recently been integrated. The first is the scientific revolution in agriculture, which has transformed the potential productivity of land and rural people from subsistence levels using traditional techniques to levels producing substantial commercial surpluses that are available to feed rapidly rising nonfarm populations. The ...

Introduction India has one of the largest and most complex agricultural research systems in the world, with more than a century of organized application of science to agriculture. A proactive policy by the government toward agricultural research and education (R&E), 1 coupled with support from a number of bilateral and multilateral donors, has produced an institutionally diverse research system...