Agricultural Postharvest Technology and Marketing Economics Research (open access)

Agricultural Postharvest Technology and Marketing Economics Research

A technical memorandum by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that presents "findings and conclusions regarding the role of the public and private research participants in the PHTME (postharvest technology and marketing economics) research, the benefits and burdens of PHTME research, trends in PHTME research funding, quality of PHTME research, and management of PHTME research in the public sector (p. iii).
Date: May 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustaining Tropical Forest Resources: Reforestation of Degraded Lands (open access)

Sustaining Tropical Forest Resources: Reforestation of Degraded Lands

This background paper is designed to provide the U.S. Congress with an overview of some reforestation technologies and their possible beneficial and adverse impacts. It also discusses the constraints and opportunities for the introduction of these technologies in such activities as timber and fuel production, watershed protection, and agroforestry.
Date: May 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustaining Tropical Forest Resources: Reforestation of Degraded Lands (open access)

Sustaining Tropical Forest Resources: Reforestation of Degraded Lands

This background paper is designed to provide the U.S. Congress with an overview of some reforestation technologies and their possible beneficial and adverse impacts. It also discusses the constraints and opportunities for the introduction of these technologies in such activities as timber and fuel production, watershed protection, and agroforestry.
Date: May 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology and East-West Trade: An Update (open access)

Technology and East-West Trade: An Update

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that "summarizes the major provisions of the 1979 Export Administration Act, highlighting those provisions which have led to problems of interpretation or exaction; recounts major provisions in U.S. export control policy towards the Soviet Union since 1979; and discusses the impacts and implications of those events-for the domestic economy, for U.S. political relations with the NATO allies and with the Soviet Union, and for U.S. national security" (p. iii).
Date: May 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Technology, Innovation, and Regional Economic Development: Background Paper: Census of State Government Initiatives for High-Technology Industrial Development (open access)

Technology, Innovation, and Regional Economic Development: Background Paper: Census of State Government Initiatives for High-Technology Industrial Development

An assessment by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that gives information about high-technology development programs ate state and local levels.
Date: May 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Water-Related Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in Arid/Semiarid Lands: Selected Foreign Experience: Background Paper (open access)

Water-Related Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in Arid/Semiarid Lands: Selected Foreign Experience: Background Paper

A report by the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) that describes "selected foreign experiences using technology to develop and sustain agriculture in arid lands" (p. iii).
Date: May 1983
Creator: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
System: The UNT Digital Library