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...

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 extension ...

In the 1960s when South Asians faced widespread famine, the technologydriven agricultural solutions of the Green Revolution (GR) were an unprecedented success, creating food surpluses within 25 years despite a 70% increase in population1. The GR raised many out of poverty, saved large areas of forest and wetlands from conversion to cropping, and helped launch the economic transformation of the ...

Europe has long defied GATT/WTO rules on agricultural trade during adjudication of trade disputes, but agreed to major reforms of its agricultural policies in the Uruguay Round. Such variation in liberalization outcomes raises questions about when nations will delegate to international institutions and how EU institutions influence its trade policy. This paper focuses on the policy process to e...