Year: 2002
Type: book
Abstract: There are large and rapidly growing differences in gross national product between countries and in income between citizens within countries.Of the world's poorest people, 75% live in rural areas, often in countries where labour productivity in agriculture is less than 1% of that in countries with the highest labour productivity.Decreasing poverty amongst farmers requires increasing productivity, however, increasing agricultural productivity in turn results in fewer employment opportunities.In order to increase productivity much knowledge is needed, not only amongst farmers, but also in institutions supporting agricultural development.This chapter discusses the kinds of knowledge needed and how new insights in knowledge management can help to generate this knowledge and improve its utilisation.Different kinds of knowledge are needed, and must be generated by different institutions and people.A challenge is to integrate different kinds of knowledge in such a way that it becomes useful and indeed used in decision making for agricultural development.To decrease farmer poverty, knowledge generation in regions with concentrations of poor farmers, needs to be more effective in order to enable competition with richer farmers.While successfully orchestrated in some areas, work must be done to understand and discover how to replicate effective knowledge generation more widely.
Author: A.W. van den Ban
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funder: National Institute on Aging
OpenAlex ID: W11087369