agriculture is an important engine of growth and poverty reduction in much of africa, nigeria inclusive. but the sector is underperforming in part because women, who are often crucial resource in agriculture and rural economy, face constraints that reduce their productivity. an understanding of these constraints is a prerequisite to devising policies to improve agricultural production and produ...

  The study examined the role of information communication technologies in extension delivery of Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA) of Nigeria.  The objectives were to: examine the agricultural extension delivery of ATA; identify ICTs relevant in agricultural extension and application of ATA; examine roles of ICTs in extension of ATA and identify constraints to the use of ICTs in extensio...

Water security is arguably one of the top global water issues. A definition that it sustainable availability adequate quantity and quality for a particular use, whether humans or environment. It becoming increasingly important food security, conflict mitigation, environmental conservation, economic development. According to Grey Sadoff (2007), issue has been object increased academic policy int...

the evidence from experiences and projects have revealed that favourable policy environment, resource conserving technologies, enabling external institutions, and local institutions and groups are the components and the preconditions needed for the successful implementation of sustainable agriculture. in this context, the mission of government is providing an appropriate institutional environme...

The economic growth of aquaculture and the dependence of a large growing population on coastal resources have led to coastal degradation and reduced resources. In this paper while realizing the potential capacities of the island systems,  the aquaculture activities of the island are specially discussed  in the framework of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM). Therefore, in this study, fir...

nowadays, agricultural r&d; provides new and developed technologies to create modern agricultural producing methods. this paper investigates the relationship between tfp, domestic agricultural r&d;, and foreign agricultural r&d; during 1979 – 2009 by using almon lag models. the results indicate that agricultural researches (both domestic and foreign r&d;) have positive and significant impact on...