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Adoption of maize production technologies in Central Tanzania
Adoption of Maize Production Technologies in Northern Tanzania
Adoption of maize production technologies in Southern Tanzania
Adoption of maize production technologies in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania
Adoption of Maize Production Technologies in the Lake Zone of Tanzania
Adoption of Maize Production Technologies in the Coastal Lowlands of Kenya
An assessment of factors affecting adoption of maize production technologies in Iganga District, Uganda
Mechanization and Maize
Author: Constance G. Anthony
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780231065962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the puzzling phenomenon of new veiling practices among lower middle class women in Cairo, Egypt. Although these women are part of a modernizing middle class, they also voluntarily adopt a traditional symbol of female subordination. How can this paradox be explained? An explanation emerges which reconceptualizes what appears to be reactionary behavior as a new style of political struggle--as accommodating protest. These women, most of them clerical workers in the large government bureaucracy, are ambivalent about working outside the home, considering it a change which brings new burdens as well as some important benefits. At the same time they realize that leaving home and family is creating an intolerable situation of the erosion of their social status and the loss of their traditional identity. The new veiling expresses women's protest against this. MacLeod argues that the symbolism of the new veiling emerges from this tense subcultural dilemma, involving elements of both resistance and acquiescence.
The gap between technology awareness and adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: A literature review for the DeSIRA project
Author: Kazembe, Cynthia
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2021-03-02
Total Pages: 10
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paper reviews different studies on technology adoption in sub-Saharan Africa to understand the determinants of low adoption of improved technologies, with a special focus on Malawi. This will in turn help explain why there is a gap between awareness and adoption of agriculture technologies. As evidenced from the results of the FGDs conducted in Malawi in 2018, despite the visible benefits of the new technologies, farmers often do not adopt or take a long time to adopt them. This creates a gap between awareness of agriculture technologies and their adoption. The existing literature from sub-Saharan Saharan Africa, demonstrates that adoption, as a decision-making process, is affected by farmers’ access to information, their financial and human capital, incentives and external programs, plus farmers’ attitude to risk.
