Technological change in Illinois agriculture: A reply

Technological Change in Agriculture and Poverty

The challenge for developing country agriculture in the next 25 years is enormous, particularly if it is not only to satisfy the growing effective demand for food, but also help reduce poverty and malnutrition, and do it in an environmentally sustainable fashion. Due to population growth and rising incomes, demand in the developing countries is predicted to increase by 59% for cereals, 60% for ...

Technical Change and Applications of Dynamic Duality to Agriculture: Reply

Larson has made three basic points in his comment on the incorporation of technical change in dynamic duality models: (a) appending a time trend onto the empirical model to account for technical change is inconsistent with an autonomous theoretical model, (b) a current value function V discounted to time to, 0 < to < T, should not be confused with a value function J discounted to time t = 0, an...

Technological Change and Technological Strategy

Work and technological innovation in organic agriculture.

Organic agriculture is a sustainable cultivation ecologically, economically and socially. Several researches in organic agriculture have been made from technical perspectives, economic traits or related to ecological aspects. There are practically no investigations into the nature of the technology used in organic agriculture, especially from an ergonomic perspective. From the activity analysis...

Uncertainty and Technological Change

I would like to begin with two generally accepted propositions: First, technological change is a major ingredient of long-term economic growth, and second, technological change is characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. Understanding the nature of these uncertainties and the obstacles to surmounting them is not a trivial matter. Rather, it goes to the heart of how new technologies are de...