Documents et rapports
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Evaluating research system performance and targeting research in land abundant areas of sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
This note provides a simple conceptual framework to measure the benefits one should expect from various types of agricultural innovations under different factor scarcity regimes. The framework is based...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: ARU31 Date du document: 31 janvier 1985 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Binswanger, H.,AGR
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From land - abundance to land - scarcity : the effects of population growth on production relations in agrarian economies (anglais)
The purpose of this paper is to account for the changes in the diverse set of production relations characterizing agragrian economies which are induced by increases in population growth. This study pays...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: ARU28 Date du document: 30 novembre 1984 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Rosenzweig, M.,Binswanger, H.,McIntire, J.,AGR
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Population density and farming systems : the changing focus of innovations and technical change (anglais)
Rapid population growth since the turn of the century has led to an exhaustion of the land frontier in most countries across the world causing a decline in arable land per capita. Traditional societies...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: ARU24 Date du document: 31 octobre 1984 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Binswanger, H.,AGR,Pingali, P.
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The evolution of farming systems and agricultural technology in sub-Saharan Africa (anglais)
The evolution of farming systems and agricultural technology in sub - Saharan Africa stems from a combination of innovations from farmers, science and industry which have culminated in agricultural intensification...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: ARU23 Date du document: 31 octobre 1984 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Binswanger, H.,Pingali, P.,AGR
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Population density and agricultural intensification : a study of the evolution of technologies in tropical agriculture (anglais)
In this paper we describe, in a highly stylized fashion, the process by which agricultural societies have traditionally coped with increasing population densities. We explore the impact of population densities...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: ARU22 Date du document: 31 octobre 1984 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pinali, P.,Binswanger, H.,AGR
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Distributional consequences of alternative food policies in India (anglais)
Food policy interventions such as food aid, supply oriented interventions or ration shops alter the balance of supply and demand for food and can therefore be expected to affect food prices unless they...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: ARU20 Date du document: 31 août 1984 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Binswanger, H.,Quizon, J.,AGR
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The distribution of income in India's Northern wheat region (anglais)
The paper concludes with tentative results on large farmers, landless workers and landowners of various types of scenarios involving income effects of food price changes, food aid, reduced population growth...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: ARU10 Date du document: 30 juin 1984 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Quizon, J.,Binswanger, H.,Gupta, D.,AGR
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Factor gains and losses in the Indian semi-arid tropics : a didactic approach to modeling the agricultural sector (anglais)
The principal purpose of this paper is to empirically implement a model, first developed in Quizon and Binswanger which attempts to determine the impact of technical change and exogenous shifts in output...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: ARU9 Date du document: 31 mai 1984 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Quizon, J.,Binswanger, H.,AGR
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Behavioral and material determinants of production relations in land abundant tropical agriculture (anglais)
What are the behavioral and material determinants of production relations in land abundant agriculture and can they be analyzed in a similar way to those present in land-scarce areas? The paper argues...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: ARU17 Date du document: 30 avril 1984 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Binswanger, H.,McIntire, J.,AGR
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Population density, farming intensity, patterns of labor use and mechanization (anglais)
This paper examines the relationship between farming intensity, labor use, and the level of mechanization. Using data from 53 specific locations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this paper provides...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: ARU11 Date du document: 30 septembre 1983 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Pingali, P.,Binswanger, H.,AGR