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Labor, Employment and Agricultural Development in West Asia and North Africa

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Dennis Tully

    1. The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria

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The basic objective of agricultural research at ICARDA is to enhance producer and consumer welfare through increasing the productivity, stability, and profitability of agriculture. Improved practices must be technically, economi­ cally, and socially suitable to farmer conditions. The rainfed areas of West Asia and North Africa have highly variable environmental conditions as well as complex social and economic structures. In recent years, the region has been experiencing major changes in the relative availabilities and costs of the classical factors of production: land, labor and capital. These changes have important implications for the design of new agricultural technology. On the one hand, the availability of labor may be an important factor determining the acceptability of new technology. On the other, it is important to consider the impact that technology can have on rural employment. To develop a better awareness ofthese issues and their relevance to technology development, ICARDA initiated a project on Agricultural Labor and Tech­ nological Change (ALTC). The first stage of the project was a review of existing information' on these issues; this review was published as a book under the title Labor and Rainfed Agriculture in West Asia and North Africa.

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Dennis Tully
    Pages 1-5

  3. The Impact of Technology on Employment in the Rainfed Farming Areas of Irbid District, Jordan

    • Emad K. Karablieh, Mahmoud Ali Salem
    Pages 7-30

  4. Labor Use on Farms in Dry-farming Areas of Konya Province, Turkey

    • Ahmet Erkus, Taner Kiral, Hasan Tatlidil, F. Fusun Tatlidil
    Pages 31-53

  5. Social and Economic Aspects of Decision Making Related to Labor Utilization and Choice of Technology: A Case Study of a Turkish Village

    • Haluk Kasnakoglu, Halis Akder, A. Arslan Gurkan, Nukhet Sirman, Nazim Ekinci, Mehmet Ecevit
    Pages 55-78

  6. Implications of Technological Change for Labor and Farming in the Karia Ba Mohamed District, Morocco

    • Driss Khrouz, Moha Marghi
    Pages 79-102

  7. Mechanization and Agricultural Employment in Arid and Semiarid Zones of Morocco: The Case of Upper Chaouia

    • Larbi Zagdouni, Driss Benatya
    Pages 103-140

  8. Agricultural Changes on Private Farms of the Sersou, Algeria

    • Ahmed Bouaita, Claudine Chaulet
    Pages 141-164

  9. The Acceptance and Rejection of Agricultural Innovations by Small Farm Operators: A Case Study of a Tunisian Rural Community

    • Arbi Ben Achour
    Pages 165-189

  10. Farm Mechanization and Socioeconomic Changes in Agriculture in a Semiarid Region of Tunisia

    • Alia Gana, Raoudha Khaldi
    Pages 191-214
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Editors and Affiliations

  • The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Aleppo, Syria

    Dennis Tully

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Labor, Employment and Agricultural Development in West Asia and North Africa

  • Editors: Dennis Tully

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0635-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: ICARDA 1990

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-0816-4Due: 31 October 1990

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-6773-7Published: 05 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-0635-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 228

  • Topics: Agriculture, Economics, general, Agricultural Economics, Regional and Cultural Studies

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