Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development (Hardcover, 2016)

Foreword; Gordon Conway 1. Innovation for Marginalized Smallholder Farmers and Development: an Overview and Implications for Policy and Research; Franz W. Gatzweiler and Joachim von Braun Part 1 Innovation for the Rural Poor: Theory, Trends and Impacts 2. Institutional and technological innovations in polycentric systems -pathways for escaping marginality; Franz W. Gatzweiler 3. Innovations for Food and Nutrition Security: Impacts and Trends; Evita Pangaribowo and Nicolas Gerber 4. Psychology of Innovation: Innovating human psychology?; Manasi Kumar 5. An optimization model for technology adoption of marginalized smallholders; Deden Dinar Iskandar and Franz W. Gatzweiler Part 2 Diversification of Agricultural Production and Income 6. The BRAC Approach to Small Farmers' Innovations; Md. Abdul Mazid 7. Agricultural Research and Extension Linkages in Amhara Region, Ethiopia;Tilaye Teklewold Deneke 8. Transaction costs on the Ethiopian formal seed market and innovations for encouraging private sector investments; Christine Husmann 9. Agricultural Service Delivery Through Mobile Phone: Local innovations and Technological Opportunities in Kenya; Heike Baumuller 10. Identification and Acceleration of Farmer Innovativeness in Upper East Ghana; Tobias Wunscher and Justice Akpene Tambo 11. Gender, social equity and innovations in smallholder farming systems: pitfalls and pathways; Tina Beuchelt 12. Assessing the Sustainability of Agricultural Technology Options for Poor Rural Farmers; Simone K. Kriesemer, Detlef Virchow, Katinka M. Weinberger 13. Land Degradation and Sustainable Land Management Innovations in Central Asia; Alisher Mirzabaev 14. Biomass-based value web. A Novel Perspective for Emergng Bioeconomies in Sub-Saharan Africa; Detlef Virchow, Tina Beuchelt, Arnim Kuhn, Manfred Denich Part 3 Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture 15. Adoption of Stress-tolerant Rice Varieties in Bangladesh; Akhter Ahmed, Ricardo Hernandez and Firdousi Naher 16. More than cereal based cropping innovations for improving food and livelihood security of poor small holders in marginal areas of Bangladesh; Md. Abdul Malek 17. Integrated Rice-fish Farming System in Bangladesh: An Ex-Ante Value Chain Evaluation Framework; Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam 18. Technologies for Maize, Wheat, Rice and Pulses in Marginal Districts of Odisha and Bihar; PK Joshi and Devesh Roy 19. Technological Innovations for Smallholder Farmers in Ghana; Samuel Asuming-Brempong, Alex Owusu Barima, Stephen Frimpong, Irene Annor-Frempong 20. Potential impacts of yield increasing crop technologies on poverty reduction in two districts of Ethiopia; Bekele Hundie and Assefa Admassie