TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND SMALL FARMS A REVISED ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK Recent trends in the development of new agricultural technologies for small farmers have focused almost exclusively on the micro issue of understanding and changing ...

TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL RELATIONS OF PRODUCTION : THE SMALL FARMERS OF PEJIBAYE , COSTA RICA A CASE STUDY SUMMARY James A. Chapman Enrique Martínez Tannia Ammour Jorge Caro María Cuvi I. INTRODUCTION The objective of this study ...

Larger farms are associated with a stronger laborsaving bias in technological innovations . This is due to two cumulative ... the optimum technological bias is more laborsaving on the large farms and more landsaving on the small farms .

Attitudinal Variables For a technology generation and transfer system to be demand - driven , it is critical to understand and analyze measurements pertaining to farmers ' views on technological changes , specifically to the Mini - Sett ...

The potential to earn higher levels of income , either through higher prices or reductions in the cost of production , is a key instrument in causing change in small farmer development communities . Whether it was a new technology ...