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The basic objective of agricultural research at ICARDA is to enhance pro ducer and consumer welfare through increasing the productivity, stability, and profitability of agriculture. Improved practices must be technically, ec onomically, and socially suitable to farmer conditions. The rainfed areas of West Asia and North Africa have highly variable environmental conditions as well as complex social and economic structures. In recent years, the region has been experiencing major changes in the relative availabilities and costs of the classical factors of production: land, labor, and capital. These changes have important implications for the design of new agricultural technology. On the one hand, the availability of labor may be an important factor determining the acceptability of new technology. On the other, it is important to consider the impact that technology can have on rural employment. To develop a better awareness of these issues and their relevance to technology development, ICARD A initiated a project on Agricultural Labor and Tech nological Change. The first stage of the project is published here; it is a review of available literature on selected issues of regional importance, com bined with more detailed analyses of the situations of eight countries with important rainfed agricultural sectors. ICARDA greatly appreciates the financial assistance of the Ford Foun dation, which allowed us to support the execution of the study and publi cation of its findings. We also appreciate the great efforts of the authors in the face of often limited data and facilities.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Regional Overview Papers
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Front Matter
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Country Review Papers
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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'Overall the text has been skilfully edited and compiled and it provides an indepth background and analysis of the key issues in a very readable forum....it will certainly be of interest to both students and researchers of agriculture in this region.' Biodiversity and Conservation 1:121 1992
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Book Title: Labor and Rainfed Agriculture in West Asia and North Africa
Editors: Dennis Tully
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0561-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: ICARDA 1990
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0687-0Due: 31 October 1990
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6740-9Published: 26 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-0561-0Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 320
Topics: Agriculture, Economics, general, Agricultural Economics, Regional and Cultural Studies