Abstract The conventional wisdom that developing countries are significantly underinvesting in agricultural research and development (R&D) has been challenged by studies found the high rates of return literature result from data limitations inadequate modeling choices. However, evidence low effort as measured intensity ratio (IR)—the percentage gross domestic product invested R&D—has no...

Many authors have blamed African land tenure systems for the poor agricultural production and environmental degradation in Africa, and therefore the resulting hunger, environmental refugees and the lack of socio-economic progress. The aim of this paper was to investigate the role of tenure security in north-east Ghana and the implications for agricultural production and environmental sustainabi...

A mechanistic model of N2O emission from agricultural soil (DeNitrification-DeCompositionFDNDC) was modified for application to the UK, and was used as the basis of an inventory of N2O emission from UK agriculture in 1990. UK-specific input data were added to DNDC’s database and the ability to simulate daily C and N inputs from grazing animals and applied animal waste was added to the model. Th...

this research was conducted to investigation organizational climate role in entrepreneurial r&d; in agricultural technology management that was implemented as a correlation research by using casual model. statistical population of the study was consisted of 2768 agricultural research experts in iran, one out of each six regional groups of provinces was randomly selected and 320 researchers were...

The major purpose of this chapter is to explore the options of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to complement conventional agricultural extension services in Tanzania. Group discussions and meetings were conducted to investigate the role of ICTs in extension services delivery using CATWOE framework of Soft Systems Methodology. The findings of the study reveal that the use of SS...