Titre : | REASSESSING INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE |
Auteurs : | PHILIP G. PARDEY ; PRABHU PINGALI ; FAO |
Type de document : | Livre |
Editeur : | ROME : FAO, 2010 |
Format : | 1 vol. (n.p.) |
Langues: | Français |
Concepts : |
TECHNOLOGIE ALIMENTAIRE
RECHERCHE ET DEVELOPPEMENT POLITIQUE DE LA RECHERCHE AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGIE |
Résumé : | The 20th Century began with a rapid ramping up of national investments in and institutionsengaged with research for food and agriculture. Private philanthropic organizations launchedagricultural R&D initiatives around the middle of the century to spur technical change in poorcountryagriculture. This broadened to include jointly conceived public and private efforts to fundinternational agricultural R&D in the 1970s. As the 21st century unfolds, the global science andagricultural development landscapes are changing in substantive ways, with importantimplications for the funding, conduct and institutional arrangements affecting internationallyconceived and conducted research for food and agriculture. While there is a general consensusthat the present and prospective future of the agricultural science landscape bears littleresemblance to the situations that prevailed in the formative years of today's food andagricultural research policies and institutions, many of these changes are poorly understood oronly beginning to play out. In this paper we report on new and emerging empirical evidence tocalibrate the private and public choices being made that affect food and agricultural R&Dworldwide. We investigate the research lag, benefit appropriability, and R&D spillover realitiesfacing innovative effort in these areas. We also discuss the economies of size and scope of R&D,and broaden the research perspective beyond innovation to encompass technologydevelopment, uptake and regulation. Seemingly seismic shifts in the global agriculturalproductivity landscapes are also quantitatively examined, along with new information on thetrends in investment in R&D that have consequences for food and agriculture.Keywords: spillovers, public, private, lags, technology regulation, productivity, spatial |
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