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Transferring Food Production Technology to Developing Nations

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About the Book and Editors

Transferring Food Production Technology to Developing Nations:
Economic and Social Dimensions

edited by Joseph J. Molnar and Howard A. Clonts

This book explores the social, economic, and policy problems associated with introducing new agriculture and aquaculture technology to developing nations as a means for expanding food supplies and increasing well-being. The contributors examine three general facets of planning for technology transfer and consider methodologies that enable effective integration of social and economic factors. The first section of the book covers problems of planning at the national and regional level, emphasizing methods and models for macro planning under conditions when resources are limited. Two subsequent sections, focusing on planning at the local level and on constraints on the technology transfer process, cover a broad range of topics, among them production and marketing decisions by small farmers, conflicting objectives of planners and producers, limitations of resource allocation within the production unit, and strategies for training extension workers, researchers, and project planners.

Joseph J. Molnar is associate professor of rural sociology at Auburn University. Associated with the International Center for Aquaculture, he teaches courses in extension methods, research methods, and the sociology of natural resources and the environment. Howard A. Clonts, professor of resource economics at Auburn University, serves as departmental liaison to the International Center for Aquaculture. His research and teaching areas include aquacultural economics, project planning and evaluation, water resource management, resource economics, and resource policy.

Transferring Food Production Technology to Developing Nations

Economic and Social Dimensions

edited by Joseph J. Molnar and Howard A. Clonts

First published 1983 by Westview Press

Published 2018 by Routledge
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Copyright 1983 by Taylor & Francis

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-50067

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-21223-0 (hbk)

Contents

1. PART I
   AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
2. PART II
   MACRO-LEVEL PLANNING IN DEVELOPMENT
3. PART III
   MICRO-LEVEL PLANNING IN DEVELOPMENT
4. PART IV
   SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

1. PART I
   AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
2. PART II
   MACRO-LEVEL PLANNING IN DEVELOPMENT
3. PART III
   MICRO-LEVEL PLANNING IN DEVELOPMENT
4. PART IV
   SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

1. ii
2. iii

Guide

TABLES

FIGURES

While we bear primary responsibility for assembling the authors who contributed to this volume and for its editing, the results are truly the effort of a much larger group of individuals. An initial grant from the Dean of General Extension, Dr. Gene Bramlett, enabled the project to get underway. Generous support from the Southeast Consortium for International Development allowed a number of scholars, who would have been unable to attend otherwise, to travel and participate in the conference.

Several far-sighted administrators fostered and encouraged the endeavor. Dr. Stanley P. Wilson, Vice President for Agriculture, Home Economics, and Veterinary Medicine and Dr. Gale A. Buchanan, Dean and Director, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, were especially supportive of efforts to increase the on-campus supply of social science expertise for the International Center for Aquaculture (ICA). Dr. Wayne Shell of the Department of Fisheries and Allied Aquacultures and Dr. Joseph H. Yeager of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology were particularly effective in managing the continuously complex administrative matters associated with interdepartmental involvement in the ICA. As Associate Director of the ICA, Dr. Donovan Moss was encouraging and helpful throughout the process.

We are particularly indebted to John B. Flynn, who took on important responsibilities in the early planning and organizational phase of the conference. Now having resumed a foreign service career, Auburn's loss is USAID's gain.

ICA staff members made significant contributions to the effort that resulted in this volume. We thank professors Rudy Schmittou, John Grover, Brian Duncan, and David Rouse, as well as Ron Phelps and David Hughes, for their active support and enthusiasm. We also thank John Dunkelberger and others who commented on our manuscript.

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