Institutional Reforms for Getting an Agricultural Knowledge
System to Play Its Role in Economic Growth (The Quaid-i-Azam Memorial
Lecture)
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Published:1999-12-01
Issue:4I
Volume:38
Page:333-354
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ISSN:0030-9729
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Container-title:The Pakistan Development Review
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language:
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Short-container-title:PDR
Abstract
While alarmists shriek the crisis of accelerating soil erosion
and declining water quality as the major impediment to the future of
global agriculture in supplying the needs of humanity, the argument here
is that, although resource degradation is indeed a threat to achievement
of satisfactory crop yields over the next several decades, the main
threat is not degradation of natural resources. Rather, it is
degradation of the capacity of societies, particularly those in the
less-developed countries, to develop the knowledge embodied in people,
technology and institutions necessary to meet the challenge of higher
yields and intensified agricultural production. Dealing with this threat
of degradation of knowledge institutions and resources must be an
important focus of economic development policy in agrarian societies. In
short, the agricultural knowledge and information systems (AKISs)
serving the developing world must be put in effective and stable shape
to deliver the needful.
Publisher
Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE)
Subject
Development,Geography, Planning and Development
Cited by
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1. Chapter 44 Agricultural Extension;Handbook of Agricultural Economics;2007