Sustainable Mountain Agriculture 1
Perspectives and issues
Mountain areas of developing countries face rapid increases in population pressure as well as degradation of the environment and production resource base, and there are unmistakable symptoms of the emerging unsustainability of current patterns of resource use and production practices. This situation is both a cause for concern and a reason for reappraisal of conventional development approaches to mountain areas in general, and mountain agriculture in particular. The book aims to stimulate fresh thinking on development goals and strategies in mountain regions. This volume contains Chapters 1 to 15 and considers the following aspects: mountain agricultural development strategies, farmers' response to development efforts, farming-forestry-livestock linkages, biological diversity, agro-ecosystems, and geographic information systems.
Published: 1992
Pages: 416
eBook: 9781780443546
Paperback: 9781853391309
| Foreword ix | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Sergio C. Trindade, Executive Director, United | |||
| Nations Centre for Science and Technology for | |||
| Development (UNCSTD) | |||
| Introduction 1 | |||
| A. S. Bhalla | |||
| Part I: Favorable Policies and Programs 13 | |||
| 1. Centralized versus Decentralized Policy Toward | |||
| Small and Medium Enterprises 17 | |||
| John Marcum | |||
| 2. Technological Policy for Small and Medium | |||
| Enterprises: The Canadian Experience 29 | |||
| Paul Dufour | |||
| 3. Technology Policy for Small and Medium | |||
| Enterprises in The Netherlands 47 | |||
| Walter Zegveld | |||
| 4. Technological Transformation of Small and | |||
| Medium Enterprises in China 55 | |||
| Guan Ze-wen et al. | |||
| 5. Technology Promotion Programs for Small | |||
| Enterprises: The Philippine Experience 67 | |||
| Quintin G. Tan | |||
| vi Contents | |||
| Part II: Building Technological Capabilities 79 | |||
| 6. Innovations and Small Producers in Developing | |||
| Countries 83 | |||
| A. S. Bhalla | |||
| 7. Building Indigenous Technological Capability | |||
| Through Foreign Assistance to Small/Medium | |||
| Enterprises 101 | |||
| J. M. Hekland | |||
| 8. A New Approach to Innovation in Traditional | |||
| Industries: The Italian Experience 109 | |||
| Danielle Mazzonis and Mario Pianta | |||
| 9. Building Technological Capability of Finnish Small | |||
| Industry Through Risk-financing 127 | |||
| Veikko O. Vuorikari | |||
| 10. Technological Transformation of Small Enterprises | |||
| in Zhejiang Province, China 139 | |||
| Wu Tianzu | |||
| 11. Technological Characteristics and Change in Small | |||
| Industrial Enterprises in Guangdong Province, | |||
| China 153 | |||
| Guan Ze-wen et al. | |||
| 12. Management and Technological Capabilities of | |||
| Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises: | |||
| Constraints and Potential 167 | |||
| Ahmad Zahdi Bin Jamil and Rahimah Bt. Md. Said | |||
| 13. Development of Design and Manufacturing | |||
| Capabilities in a Small Nigerian Company 175 | |||
| Sam Chukwujekwu | |||
| Part III: Institutions and Infrastructure 183 | |||
| 14. Nurturing Microenterprises and Technological | |||
| Innovation through Business Incubation Process 187 | |||
| Rustam Lalkaka and Hu Ping | |||
| 15. Institutions for Promoting Technological | |||
| Modernization of Indian Small Enterprises 203 | |||
| C. V: S. Ratnam | |||
| 16. Technical and Managerial Extension Services for | |||
| Korean Small and Medium Enterprises 213 | |||
| Kyung Tae Lee | |||
| Contents vii | |||
| 17. Cooperation between Research and Educational | |||
| Institutions and Small Enterprises in China 221 | |||
| Cai Liyi | |||
| 18. Infrastructural Requirements of Information | |||
| Technology and Small and Medium Enterprises 233 | |||
| Karl Ganzhorn | |||
| The Seminar Report 247 | |||
| Select Bibliography 271 | |||
| Index 275 | |||
| Notes on the Contributors 283 |
N.S. Jodha
N.S. Jodha is Head of the Mountain Fanning Systems Division at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal. He is currently based in Washington, DC, with the World Bank.
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