In an assessment of the possible benefits to consumers and producers from snap bean research, four different technologies are proposed and their impact analyzed. Benefits are measured by using a welfare analysis and calculating the internal rate of return under different assumptions. The range of...
For more than two decades Thailand has built up an intensive and highly profitable cassava processing and export industry, mainly due to favorable price and quota policy regimes with the European Community (EC). During the 1980`s however, internal EC political pressure has attempted to reduce Tha...
Henry, Guy
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Klakhaeng, Kaival I.
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Gottret, María Verónica
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[Maintaining the edge: the case of cassava technology transfer in Thailand]
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Maintaining the edge: the case of cassava technology transfer in Thailand
The identification, introduction and development of cassava drying technology has led to a more stable and wider cassava market in several important cassava growing regions in Latin America. In turn, this has been an incentive for small-scale cassava farmers to increase both cassava area and prod...
Best, R.
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Henry, Guy
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[Role of small-scale cassava drying plants in improving equitable rural economic growth and development]
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Role of small-scale cassava drying plants in improving equitable rural economic growth and development
Financial and human resources for national and international cassava R and D have traditionally been a scarce good. In order to optimize the return on research investment, cassava R and D needs to be well focused, generating appropriate technology components to maximize adoption and subsequent im...
Henry, Guy
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Best, R.
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[Strategic cassava R and D planning activities to maximize future impact]
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Strategic cassava R and D planning activities to maximize future impact
Adoption and impact studies have been designed to determine the returns to resources invested in research. They are important as a tool for focusing R&D activities and as a mechanism for ex ante and ex post feedback. The document is divided into four parts: the first reviews recent adoption and i...
Gottret, María Verónica
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Henry, Guy
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[La importancia de los estudios de adopción e impacto: el caso del proyecto integrado de yuca en la costa norte de Colombia]
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La importancia de los estudios de adopción e impacto: el caso del proyecto integrado de yuca en la costa norte de Colombia
Biotechnology techniques, tools and products can offer time and cost savings for agricultural R & D. Biotech`s early start concentrated for the major part on highly commercial, primary crops and private sector labs. Biotech research involvement in a secondary crop like cassava has been relatively...
Henry, Guy
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Thro, Ann Marie
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Lynam, John K.
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[Cassava biotechnology priority setting: old hat for a new tool]
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Cassava biotechnology priority setting: old hat for a new tool
Although world cassava production has been increasing, it is shown that considerable cassava yield gaps still exist. Constraints are divided according to being endogenous and exogenous to the (plant and) production system. It is indicated that besides these constraints, considerable "adoption con...
The impact of improved technological components depends to a large extent on the appropriateness of the intervention for the end-user, the efficiency of the technology transfer mechanism and the socio-economical and political conditions of the technology target area. In order to optimize impact t...
Henry, Guy
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Gottret, María Verónica
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[Cassava technology adoption: Constraints and opportunities]
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Cassava technology adoption: Constraints and opportunities