Rural Innovation Systems

Responding to global competitive pressure : local co-operation and upgrading in the Sinos Valley, Brazil

Schmitz, Hubert | 1998
  • Author(s): Schmitz, Hubert
  • Publisher: University of Sussex. Institute of development studies
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: industrial concentration, shoe industry, industrial subcontracting, industrial efficiency, innovations, globalization, international competition, rio grande do sul, brazil
The failure of a cluster of leather footwear industries in Brazil to address intensified global competition shows that the centrifugal forces of globalization make local co-operation increasingly difficult.

Pastoral innovation systems : perspectives from Ethiopia and Kenya

Scoones, Ian and Adwera, Andrew | 2009
  • Author(s): Scoones, Ian and Adwera, Andrew
  • Publisher: Institute of development studies (IDS). Future agricultures consortium (FAC)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: pastoralism, innovations, development strategies, water supply, animal diseases, range management, climatic change, east africa, ethiopia, kenya
In 2009, pastoralists from across southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya from a dozen ethnic groups gathered to debate key pastoral development issues from an innovation systems perspective.

System of rice intensification in India : innovation history and institutional challenges

Shambu Prasad, C. | 2006
  • Author(s): Shambu Prasad, C.
  • Publisher: WWF. Project 'Dialogue on water, food and environment' [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural innovations, rice, technology transfer, history, research centres, agricultural extension, india
The formal rice research establishment resisted the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in India. SRI was developed in Madagascar and allows farmers to grow more rice with fewer inputs.

Engaging scientists through institutional histories

Shambu Prasad, C. and Hall, Andrew and Thummuru, Laxmi | 2006
  • Author(s): Shambu Prasad, C. and Hall, Andrew and Thummuru, Laxmi
  • Publisher: Institutional learning and change (ILAC)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural research, research centres, institution building, capacity building, innovations
The preparation of institutional histories can help a research organization become a learning organization in order to cope with changing mandates and become better at contributing to agricultural innovation.

Modeling agricultural innovation in a rapidly developing country : the case of Chinese pesticide industry

Shi, Guanming and Pray, Carl | 2011
  • Author(s): Shi, Guanming and Pray, Carl
  • Publisher: University of Minnesota [etc.]
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: agricultural innovations, development models, industrial policy, asia
The authors investigated how policy and market factors influence decisions on innovation, using pesticide innovation data from China. The results suggest that the government policies for openness, public research and education and intellectual property right enforcement can encourage innovation.
 

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