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    Assessment of Constraints in Technology Transfer System and Policies which Limit the Realisation of High Green Leaf Production in the Smallholder Tea Sector of the Kenya Tea Industry: An Empirical Analysis of Economic Efficiency and Supply of Tea Part II

    Tea productivity in the smallholder sub sector has been relatively lower than in the estates sub sector over the years and the yields are still well below potential. This study investigated the efficiency of adoption of tea production technologies a…

    Philip Okinda Owuor

    • Tea Production
    • Smallholder Farmers
    • Technology Transfer
    • Agricultural Productivity
    • Agricultural resources
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    80 pages

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    Africa Capacity Report 2017: Building Capacity in Science, Technology and Innovation for Africa's Transformation

    African countries have shown their interest and willingness to strive for science, technology, and innovation (STI)-led development in the coming years.This Report shows that capacity in its various dimensions, though improving, remains a problem …

    African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)

    • Capacity Building
    • Science, Technology and Innovation
    • Science, technologie et innovation
    • Déficits de capacités
    • l’indice des capacités en Afrique
    • African Capacity Index
    • Skills Development
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Research and development projects
    • Brain drain
    224 pages

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    Socio-Economic Consequences of Technological Change on the Rural Non-Farm Igbo Women Entrepreneurs of South-Eastern Nigeria: Implications for Farm and Non-Farm Linkages

    "Technological change has affected many aspects of rural women’s non-farm enterprises with many positive and negative socio-economic consequences on the women enterpreneurs and their households. This study investigated the extent of this change, an…

    Jonathan Okechukwu Alimba

    Justina Uzoma Mgbada

    • Women Entrepreneurs
    • Socio-economic Impacts
    • Rural Livelihoods
    • Technological Change
    • Sustainable development--Developing countries
    • Labour market
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    75 pages

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    Gender Variable in Agricultural Technology: A Case Of Rural Farmers in Machakos District - Eastern Kenya

    Gender differentiated technology is not a new phenomenon. Indeed, most technologies are developed and tailored according to the stereotyped roles of men and women in society. In Africa, technological development has been modelled on western pre-sele…

    Esther Njiro

    • Agricultural Technology
    • Gender
    • Rural Farmers
    • Food Security
    • Agricultural Production
    • Agricultural resources
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    58 pages

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    Building Capacity in Science, Technology, and Innovation for Africa's Transformation: The Role of Higher Learning and Research Institutions

    Agenda 2063 and the Common African Position on Agenda 2030 identify STI as a key enabler to achieving development blueprints. In response, Africa adopted a 10-year Science, Technology, and Innovation Strategy (STISA–2024). Africa Capacity Report 201…

    African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)

    • Higher Education
    • Science, Technology and Innovation (STI)
    • Transformation
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Education
    • Research institutes
    2 pages

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    Building Capacity in Science, Technology and Innovation for Africa's Transformation: The Role of Governments

    The call to industrialize and modernize Africa has become popular in recent years, and the AU’s Agenda 2063 and the Common African Position on Agenda 2030 identify science, technology, and innovation (STI) as key enablers to achieve development blue…

    African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)

    • Science, Technology and Innovation (STI)
    • Transformation
    • Capacity Building
    • African Governments
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    2 pages

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    Locus of Control and Technology Adoption in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia

    Despite substantial government investment to promote modern agricultural technologies - to improve yields and food security - the adoption rates of these technologies remain low in many African countries. This study analyzes two datasets (Ethiopi…

    Kibrom A. Abay

    Garrick Blalock

    Guush Berhane

    • Agricultural Technology
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Agricultural resources
    3 pages

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    The African Technopolitan September 2014

    In this issue the highlights of ACTS research are shared. The first article "Africa Rising? Not without science, technology and innovation discusses the potential for African growth despite civil wars and epidemics. This can however only be achieved…

    African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS)

    • Science, Technology and Innovation
    • Foreign policy
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • International relations
    23 pages

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    Building Capacity in Science, Technology and Innovation for Africa's Transformation: The role of Private Sector

    The call to industrialize and modernize Africa has become popular in recent years, and the African Union’s Agenda 2063 and the Common African Position on Agenda 2030 identify science, technology and innovation (STI)1 as key enablers. Many African co…

    African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF)

    • Science, Technology and Innovation
    • Private Sector
    • Capacity Building
    • Transformation
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Labour market
    • Civil society
    2 pages

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    The State of ICT in Lesotho (2016)

    While Lesotho has made significant progress towards its national vision of 2020, it faces several challenges as a small landlocked, lower-middle income country, with mountainous terrain and low population density outside of the capital, Maseru. The …

    Alison Gillwald

    Onkokame Mothobi

    Mariama Deen-Swarray

    • Information Communication Technologies (ICT)
    • ICT Strategy
    • ICT Policy
    • Internet Use
    • Information technology
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    99 pages

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    Trade, Inequality and Morocco

    International trade has become a pervasive feature of our lives, yet it remains controversial and resisted across the world. High and rising income inequality, which is often blamed on international trade, especially trade with China, is one reason…

    Uri Dadush

    • Inequality
    • Technology
    • International trade
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Economic development
    8 pages

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    Les Imperatifs de Capacités en Science, Technologie et innovation dans les pays Africains: Cas du Togo / The Requirements of Capacities in Science, Technology and Innovation in African Countries: Case of Togo

    Togo has a National Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy based on the priorities defined by the Strategy for Accelerated Growth and Employment Promotion (SCAPE 2013-2017) in the field of research and development, one of the factors of mod…

    Centre Autonome d'Etudes et de Renforcement des capacités pour le Développement au Togo (CADERDT)

    • Les Technologies Numériques
    • Digital Technologies
    • Croissance Economique
    • Economic Growth
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Sustainable development--Developing countries
    • Intellectual property--Government policy
    56 pages

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    The role of Development Financial Institutions in the Acquisition of Technological Capabilities by Small and Medium Enterprises in Kenya

    "The research examines the role of Development Financial Institutions in the Acquisition of Technological Capabilities in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya. Empirical research has shown that technological capabilities hold the key to comp…

    G. S. Namusonge

    • Small and Medium Enterprises
    • Technological Capabilities
    • Competitive Advantage
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Financial institutions
    65 pages

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    The MetTrak System at Rutongo: A Preliminary Assessment

    "This report is a preliminary evaluation conducted by Partnership Africa Canada of a new digital tracking technology for conflict minerals currently operational at the Rutongo Mines site in Rwanda. This is the first time this technology has been a…

    Shawn Blore

    • Great Lakes Region
    • Artisanal Mining
    • Conflict Minerals
    • MetTrak System
    • Mines and mineral resources
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    24 pages

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    Understanding Farmers’ Technology Adoption Decisions: Input Complementarity and Heterogeneity

    "The objective of this paper is to investigate farmers’ multidimensional technology adoption decisions in the presence of heterogeneities across households. We aim to quantify potential complementarities among inputs and alternative forms of unobser…

    Kibrom A. Abay

    Guush Berhane

    Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse

    Bethelhem Koru

    Kibrewossen Abay

    • Agricultural Productivity
    • Farming Systems
    • Technology Adoption
    • Food Security
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Agricultural resources
    22 pages

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    Synopsis: Agricultural Mechanization in Ethiopia: Evidence from the 2015 Feed the Future Survey

    "In this research note, we provide a preview of results from a study of agricultural mechanization in Ethiopia. Our research shows that 9 percent of farmers in the Feed the Future regions of Ethiopia used mechanization at some point during the agric…

    Guush Berhane

    Kalle Hirvonen

    Bart Minten

    • Agricultural Mechanization
    • Food Security
    • Agricultural Transformation
    • Agricultural resources
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    2 pages

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    Emerging Technologies for Building Resilience to Climate Change Effect: A Case Study in Dangbe East District of the Republic of Ghana

    "The conversion of the kinetic energy in wind into electrical energy offers unique solution to the overall energy supply where resource exists as well as partial solution to the world’s over dependence on exhaustible primary energy sources such as …

    Mahu Seth Agbeve

    Atsu Titiati

    Wilhemina Quaye

    • Climate Change Adaptation
    • Farmers
    • Energy Supply
    • Climatic changes
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Renewable energy sources--Technological innovations
    • Wind power
    28 pages

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    Enhancing Agricultural Yields by Small-holder Farmers through Integrated Climate Change Adaptation in Sierra Leone

    Response to climate change impacts in Sierra Leone is too low, despite the emerging evidence in recent years. Climatic variables such as rainfall and temperature which have shown normal routine of occurrence now give a different picture. There has b…

    Teddy Amara Morlai

    Chris Bobo Squire

    Kelleh Gbawuru Mansaray

    Gibril Vandy

    • Climate Change Adaptation
    • Smallholder Farmers
    • Agricultural Yield
    • Agro-Climatic Regions
    • Agricultural resources
    • Climatic changes
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    68 pages

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    An Assessment of the Effects of Technology Transfer on Gender Roles within a Community: The Development of Tea and Coffee Production among Smallholder Farmers in Kiambu District, Central Province Kenya

    "The main objective of this study was to assess the impact of the adoption of an entire package of technology on gender roles within the farming communities, with the intent of determining any imbalances that need to be addressed. In this case, the …

    Winifred N. Karugu

    • Small-Scale Farmers
    • Tea Production
    • Coffee Production
    • Technology Transfer
    • Gender
    • Agricultural resources
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    81 pages

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    Socio-Economic and Environmental Consequences of Agricultural Technology: A Comparative Study of Small Scale Surface Irrigation Technology in Nigeria and Swaziland

    "This study compares the socio-economic and environmental consequences of small scale surface irrigation (SSSI) technology in Nigeria and Swaziland. Its major thrust is to identify and compare the economic and environmental externalities of the tech…

    Kevin Chika Urama

    Emmanuel Mwendera

    • Small Scale Surface Irrigation
    • Socio-economic Impacts
    • Agricultural Technology
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Agriculture--Environmental aspects
    69 pages

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