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....

Beginning with the WTO‘s Doha Development Agenda and establishment of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing poverty by 50 percent by 2015, poverty impacts of trade reforms have become central to the global development agenda. This has been particularly true of agricultural trade reforms due to the importance of grains in the diets of the poor, presence of relatively higher protection in a...

The central argument in this report is that most policy research on African agriculture is irrelevant to agricultural and overall economic policy in Africa, and that the policy research community—and the agricultural economics profession in particular—must shoulder a significant part of the blame for this state of affairs. A wide-ranging review of recent research reveals that agricultural econo...

Weekly composite air samples were collected from early April through to mid-September 1995 at three paired urban and agricultural sites along the Mississippi River region of the Midwestern United States. The paired sampling sites were located in Mississippi, Iowa, and Minnesota. A background site, removed from dense urban and agricultural areas, was located on the shore of Lake Superior in Mich...

The main objectives of the CGIAR agricultural research and development agenda are to reduce poverty and ensure an adequate nutrition and quality of life for rural society in the developing world. This mission involves meeting basic food needs of the rural poor but also expanding output to meet the food needs of a growing urban population, in a manner that is economically viable and which does n...

the study determined the willingness and capacity of poultry farmers to pay for extension services in nasarawa state, nigeria. at this research used a sample size of 120 poultry farmers. simple descriptive statistics, kuppuswamy scale and logit regression model were used data analysis. the results showed that majority of the poultry farmers (87.5%) indicated their willingness to pay for extensi...