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Will small yam farmers in Jamaica adopt the mini-sett technology
(IICA, 04-1996)
This research paper is a renewed attempt to clarify the importance of farmers'social context and opinions related to embracing a technological production package. It overviews and incorporates attitudinal questions centered ...
The social dynamics of on-farm adaptive research
(IICA, 12-1993)
The paper gives some guidelines of how to conduct interviews with farmers in order to create an atmosphere in which the researcher and farmer can work for each other's benefit. This requirement is essential in the cases ...
Project documemt: support for the generation and transfer of agricultural technology in Jamaica
(IICA, 10-1989)
The specific objective of the project is to strengthen the Ministry of Agriculture's (MINAG) institutional capability for generating and transferring technologies that are acceptable to small-scalle farmers.
II Annual Conference Jamaican Society for Agricultural Sciences: Political and economic dimensions of technology transfer
(IICA, 1992)
This brief paper attempts to provide a general overview of the political and economic dimension vis-a-vis technology transfer. It suggests a broad agenda for understanding some of the inter-relationships between agricultural ...
Programme of work for the short-term adaptive production oriented research on rice in the BRUMDEC Project
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 1982)
This programme aims at correcting deficiencies by the transfer of technology and by generating information to enable the formulation of improved norms in the management of the rice crop.