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

    We investigate the implication of farmers’ locus of control on their technology adoption decisions. Our empirical analysis is based on two longitudinal surveys and hypothetical choice exercises conducted on Ethiopian farmers. We find that locus of…

    Kibrom A. Abay

    Guush Berhane

    Garrick Blalock

    • Technology Adoption
    • Agricultural Investment
    • Agriculture--Economic aspects
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    42 pages

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    Africa's Cryptocurrency Boom: The Bitcoin Craze

    Cryptocurrency as a digital asset is designed to work as a medium of exchange that uses cryptography to anonymously secure its transactions, control the creation of additional units and to verify the transfer of assets. Cryptography the process of …

    Emily Norman-William

    • Cryptocurrency
    • Bitcoins
    • Digital Currency
    • Finance
    • Monetary unions
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    9 pages

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    Bridging the Digital Divide and Supporting Increased Digital Trade: Scoping Study

    The global economy is experiencing important technological shifts, with the rise of digital technology a key driver. This can be seen today in the rapid growth of the digital economy, broadly defined as the use of digital technologies to facilitate …

    Shamel Azmeh

    Christopher Foster

    • Digital Technologies
    • Value Chain
    • Digitalisation
    • Digital trade
    • Global Economic Governance
    • Electronic commerce
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    33 pages

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    An Effective Technology Transfer System: Research and Extension Messages reach the Majority of Farmers

    Why do farmers need access to newer technologies on a recurrent basis? Most subsistence farmers already know how to farm and undertake post-harvest processing from their parents. The main reason to turn to technology is that traditional techniques …

    Isabelle Tsakok

    • Subsistence Agriculture
    • Agricultural Transformation
    • Agriculture--Economic aspects
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Climatic changes
    7 pages

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    Artificial Intelligence and Political Science

    The future of representative democracy is uncertain. The gradual consolidation of its institutions, procedures, cultural and ideological references, was directly congruent with the evolution of the industrial age economic and social compound. But th…

    Alfredo Da Gama e Abreu Valladão

    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Digital Technologies
    • Social Change
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Global Order
    • Political development
    28 pages

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    Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How Machines are Affecting People and Places

    The power and prospect of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) initially alarmed technology experts, for fear that machine advancements would destroy jobs. Then came a correction of sorts, with a wave of reassurances minimizing their negative…

    Mark Muro

    Robert Maxim

    Jacob Whiton

    • Automation
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Machine Advancements
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Economic development
    • Labour market
    108 pages

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    Next Steps for the Digital Revolution in Africa: Inclusive Growth and Job Creation Lessons from Kenya

    This paper provides examples of such dynamism and links digitization to employment creation, with the hope that, over time, as more sectors and fin techs innovate on the digital platform, the trend will be clearer with more data points to allow deep…

    Njuguna S. Ndung’u

    • Digitization
    • Digital Technologies
    • Financial Inclusion
    • Employment
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Information technology
    • Financial institutions
    27 pages

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    Technology Shaping and Technology Policy From Workshop Highlights

    The role of society in shaping technological development is key to sound technology policies. This was the message emerging from a workshop “Understanding technology shaping, policy and research in development” that was held in Nairobi. It was a cu…

    Ann Njoki Kingiri

    Andrew Adwera

    • Sanitation
    • Technological Development
    • Technological innovations--Economic aspects
    • Public health--Research
    6 pages

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