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Book Reviews Adopting Improved Farm Technology: a Study of Smallholder Farmers in Eastern Province, Zambia Rafael Celis, John T. Milimo, and Sudhir Wanmali (eds), 1991, International Food Policy Research Institute, 089629319X, The importance of rapid technical change in food production is now widely recognized as essential to arresting the deteriorating situation with respect to malnutrition, rural poverty, and degradation of the environment over much of Sub- Saharan Africa. The study whose results are reported in this book was a collaborative effort between the International Food Policy Research Institute and several Zambian research and development organizations. Their objectives were 1) to provide a better understanding of the role of various public policies in promoting rapid technical change, and 2) to assess the impacts of adoption of improved technology on employment, incomes, and nutrition. The study is based on detailed surveys (mostly undertaken in the mid-1980s) of 330 households in Zambia's Eastern Province. This information is supplemented by an analysis of secondary statistics compiled at the national and regional level. The first part of the report uses published time series data up to about the mid- 1980s to describe and analyze features of the physical, institutional, and macro- policy environment that influence the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of African Economies Oxford University Press

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Byerlee, Derek
Journal of African Economies , Volume 2 (1) – May 1, 1993
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Adopting Improved Farm Technology: a Study of Smallholder Farmers in Eastern Province, Zambia Rafael Celis, John T. Milimo, and Sudhir Wanmali (eds), 1991, International Food Policy Research Institute, 089629319X, The importance of rapid technical change in food production is now widely recognized as essential to arresting the deteriorating situation with respect to malnutrition, rural poverty, and degradation of the environment over much of Sub- Saharan Africa. The study whose results are reported in this book was a collaborative effort between the International Food Policy Research Institute and several Zambian research and development organizations. Their objectives were 1) to provide a better understanding of the role of various public policies in promoting rapid technical change, and 2) to assess the impacts of adoption of improved technology on employment, incomes, and nutrition. The study is based on detailed surveys (mostly undertaken in the mid-1980s) of 330 households in Zambia's Eastern Province. This information is supplemented by an analysis of secondary statistics compiled at the national and regional level. The first part of the report uses published time series data up to about the mid- 1980s to describe and analyze features of the physical, institutional, and macro- policy environment that influence the

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