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Technological Innovation and the Agricultural Sustainability: What Compatibility for the Mechanization?

Technological Innovation and the Agricultural Sustainability: What Compatibility for the Mechanization?

Rachida Khaled, Lamine Hammas
Copyright: © 2016 |Volume: 7 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 14
ISSN: 1947-8305|EISSN: 1947-8313|EISBN13: 9781466690998|DOI: 10.4018/IJIDE.2016040101
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Khaled, Rachida, and Lamine Hammas. "Technological Innovation and the Agricultural Sustainability: What Compatibility for the Mechanization?." IJIDE vol.7, no.2 2016: pp.1-14. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJIDE.2016040101

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Khaled, R. & Hammas, L. (2016). Technological Innovation and the Agricultural Sustainability: What Compatibility for the Mechanization?. International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (IJIDE), 7(2), 1-14. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJIDE.2016040101

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Khaled, Rachida, and Lamine Hammas. "Technological Innovation and the Agricultural Sustainability: What Compatibility for the Mechanization?," International Journal of Innovation in the Digital Economy (IJIDE) 7, no.2: 1-14. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJIDE.2016040101

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Abstract

The diffusion of the technological innovation can affect the agricultural sector in the three-sided (social, economic and environmental), a hand, it can contribute to solve problems of the agricultural sector: the effects of the climatic changes, the farming exodus and the migration and the problems of poverty and it can improve the agricultural productivity. But on the other hand, he can lead to new problems, such as depletion of energy resources caused by excessive use of energizing technologies, pollution of air and water and the destruction of soil by industrial waste. This paper aims to theoretically and empirically analyze the role of technological innovation in improving agricultural sustainability through the impact of mechanization on agricultural productivity, energy production and net income per capita for a panel of three Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) during the period 1997-2012. By using simultaneous equations, the authors' finding that technological innovation cannot achieve the purpose of sustainable development in the agriculture sector in the Maghreb countries through the negative impact of mechanization and research and development on agricultural productivity.

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