This study aims at shedding some light on the potential impact of agricultural technology adoption on poverty alleviation strategies. It does so through an empirical investigation of the relationship between technological change, of the Green Revolution type, and wellbeing of smallholder farm households in two rural Bangladeshi regions. As technology adoption is not randomly assigned but there ...

The energy and nutrient content of most agricultural crops are as good as or superior to natural foods for wild geese and they tend to be available in agricultural landscapes in far greater abundance. Artificial grasslands (fertilised native swards and intensively managed reseeds) offer far superior quality forage and higher intake rates than seminatural or natural grasslands. The availability ...

 Growth in the productivity of staple nontradable food production is associated with consumption increases or poverty reduction across a number of settings, although the study of these relationships is complicated by the specific market dynamics that determine food prices. The relationship between productivity growth in tradable or export-oriented production and poverty alleviation is less cle...

Since the launching of the renewal, the CGIAR has emphasized a new research agenda aimed at promoting a sustainable agriculture for food security and poverty alleviation in the developing world (LDCs). In various declarations and published materials there is constant mentions of new technological breakthroughs developed by the IARCs that will have a more positive impact on the poor of the LDCs....

Historically, agriculture has been the mainstay of Indian economy providing bread and butter to the farming society. We often described Indian agriculture as a gamble in monsoons i.e. susceptible to weather variations and climate change. Even if we have moved quite a distance away from the situation of yesteryears, still the agricultural profession is tantamount to gambling with nature. Agricul...

In today's world the agricultural sector employs half of the world's labour force with an estimated 1.3 billion workers active in agricultural production worldwide. The majority of agricultural workers are found in developing countries. A great majority are small scale farmers. They have been more often victims rather than beneficiaries of the green revolution, the technological development and...