标题:DISCUSSANT'S COMMENTS FOR AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING, SELECTED PAPERS SESSION SP-6R: "ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES"
摘要:The papers presented in this session move beyond the questions of who adopts technologiesto ask how preferences for characteristics (of maize in Mexico or cattle in Burkina Faso) affectadoption, how technical change differentially affects semi-subsistence farmers, and how itaffects productivity and yield variability when the characteristics of adopting and non-adoptingfarm households are explicitly modeled.