Rural Innovation Systems

Improving competitive agricultural research funding in India

Gill, Gerard J. and Carney, Diana and Pal, Suresh | [2000]
  • Author(s): Gill, Gerard J. and Carney, Diana and Pal, Suresh
  • Publisher: National centre for agricultural economics and policy research (NCAP)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural research, competition, development finance, india
India has all necessary preconditions for efficient competitive funding. Suggestions for steps to enhance effectiveness are identified. The importance of timely flows of funds is emphasized.

Invisible market : energy and agricultural technologies for women's economic advancement

Gill, Kirrin | cop. 2012
  • Author(s): Gill, Kirrin
  • Publisher: International center for research on women (ICRW)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: technology transfer, agriculture, gender, women, developing countries
This research explores what it takes for technology initiatives, specifically in the energy and agricultural sectors, to reach and economically benefit women in developing countries through market-based strategies that have the potential for achieving scale and financial sustainability.

DRUMNET case study

Giné, Xavier | 2005
  • Author(s): GinĂ©, Xavier
  • Publisher: World bank
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural extension, microcredit, farmers associations, market access, advisory services, fertilizers, exports, quality control, africa
DrumNet is a cashless micro-credit program that links commercial banks, smallholder farmers, and retail providers of farm inputs. DrumNet enables members of co-guaranteed groups to access required farm inputs at local participating stockists and helps them maintain safety standards for export.

Knowledge in the air and its uneven distribution : a story of a Chilean wine cluster

Giuliani, Elisa | 2003
  • Author(s): Giuliani, Elisa
  • Publisher: University of Sussex. SPRU [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: private enterprises, wine industry, innovations, information exchange, information networks, chile, south america
Social network analysis of a Chilean wine cluster shows that knowledge flows within 'cliques' of firms with similar absorptive capacity, and members of epistemic communities such as oenologists or agronomists.

When micro shapes the meso : learning networks in a Chilean wine cluster

Giuliani, Elisa and Bell, Martin | 2004
  • Author(s): Giuliani, Elisa and Bell, Martin
  • Publisher: University of Sussex. The Freeman centre
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: enterprise development, industrial location, information exchange, wine industry, latin america, chile
Examines the influence of individual firms' absorptive capacities on the intra-cluster knowledge system and its interconnection with extra-cluster knowledge, using the case of a wine cluster in Chile.
 

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