Book Description
Overview of agricultural research; Economic issues in the performance of agricultural research; The structure of the agricultural research sector; Conclusions and policy implications.
Author : Dina L. Umali
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Overview of agricultural research; Economic issues in the performance of agricultural research; The structure of the agricultural research sector; Conclusions and policy implications.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 2002-04-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309076161
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requested that the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Research Council (NRC) convene a panel of experts to examine whether publicly funded agricultural research has influenced the structure of U.S. agriculture and, if so, how. The Committee to Review the Role of Publicly Funded Agricultural Research on the Structure of U.S. Agriculture was asked to assess the role of public-sector agricultural research on changes in the size and numbers of farms, with particular emphasis on the evolution of very-large-scale operations.
Author : David J. Spielman
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Vernon W Ruttan
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 100030647X
The contributors to this volume, based on the Agriculture Research Seminars held annually at the University of Minnesota, examine the role of government, multinationals, and the emerging private sector (in both domestic and international contexts) in determining agricultural research policy.
Author : International Service for National Agricultural Research
Publisher :
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : Derek Byerlee
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780821341735
This report provides a brief review of recent trends and key policies in strengthening national agricultural research systems. Chapters provide a brief overview of the recent evolution of national research systems and a synthesis of policy issues and good practices for developing these systems including the involvement of universities and the private sector. They also focus on key policy and institutional reforms for strengthening public research institutions including funding, research management, and client orientation. Finally they discuss implications for the World Bank in its ongoing efforts to strengthen national research systems.
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Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 31,50 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Carl E. Pray
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN :
The private sector has assumed a larger role in developing improved technology for food and agriculture, with private agricultural R&D spending growing faster than public agricultural R&D spending over the past several decades. Major drivers have been new commercial opportunities afforded by scientific advances and liberalization of agricultural input markets. Along with rising private R&D investment, agricultural input industries have undergone significant structural changes. These developments have been pronounced in both high-income and developing countries. The rising importance of private R&D, however, does not imply a diminished role of the public sector, as most empirical evidence points to complementarities between public and private agricultural R&D.
Author : Petra Moser
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2021-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022677905X
"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of water and arable land, the gradual increase in severe weather presents new challenges and imperatives for producing new, more resilient crops to feed a more crowded planet in the twenty-first century. Innovation has historically helped agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and chemical innovations have more than doubled agricultural output while barely changing input quantities. The ample investment behind these innovations was available because of a high rate of return: a 2007 paper found that the median ROI in agriculture was 45 percent between 1965 and 2005. This landscape has changed. Today many of the world's wealthier countries have scaled back their share of GDP devoted to agricultural R&D amid evidence of diminishing returns. Universities, which have historically been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly depend on funding from industry rather than government to fund their research. As Upton Sinclair wrote of the effects industry influences, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." In this volume of the NBER Conference Report series, editor Petra Moser offers an empirical, applied-economic framework to the different elements of agricultural R&D, particularly as they relate to the shift from public to private funding. Individual chapters examine the sources of agricultural knowledge and investigate challenges for measuring the returns to the adoption of new agricultural technologies, examine knowledge spillovers from universities to agricultural innovation, and explore interactions between university engagement and scientific productivity. Additional analysis of agricultural venture capital point to it as an emerging and future source of resource in this essential domain"--
Author : Keith O. Fuglie
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0470376740
An examination of technology transfer in agricultural research collaborations Public-Private Collaboration in Agricultural Research: New Institutional Arrangements and Economic Implications examines the impact of the private-sector takeover of the field, and what it means for funding, research, technology, and more. Beginning with U.S. agricultural research financing, the discussion moves on to cover plant and animal research investments, collaborating institutions, and the international significance of technology spillover and transfer. From intellectual property rights and the CRADA Model to seed generation and other agricultural technology, this book offers a thought-provoking overview of global collaboration at this critical intersection of science and human welfare.