Financing agricultural research: International investment patterns and policy perspectives

Alston, Julian M.; Pardey, Philip G.; Roseboom, Johannes

doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(98)00029-1

Cited by 93 publications

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“…After growing rapidly during the post-Second World War period, investments in agricultural research have on average decelerated, although there are differences among the regions of the world 42 .…”

Section: Making the Investments To Create The Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing the crops to feed the poor

Huang

Pray

Rozelle

2002

Nature

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Solutions to the problem of how the developing world will meet its future food needs are broader than producing more food, although the successes of the 'Green Revolution' demonstrate the importance of technology in generating the growth in food output in the past. Despite these successes, the world still faces continuing vulnerability to food shortages. Given the necessary funding, it seems likely that conventional crop breeding, as well as emerging technologies based on molecular biology, genetic engineering and natural resource management, will continue to improve productivity in the coming decades.

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Section: Making the Investments To Create The Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enhancing the crops to feed the poor

Huang

Pray

Rozelle

2002

Nature

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“…Other major supply side factors that contributed to the food commodity price inflation, included stagnation of productivity growth due to cumulative underinvestment in agricultural research as well as technology and infrastructure such as irrigation [13,14]. All these supply factors resulted in slow or negative growth in production [1,8,9,15].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantifying the causes of the global food commodity price crisis

Hochman

Rajagopal

Timilsina

et al. 2014

Biomass and Bioenergy

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“…As a recent review by McCalla (2014) indicates, these reform efforts did not lead to major changes in the institutional structure of the system. Being a large institution comprising diverse interest groups of political players (donors) as well as operational ones (centers and their research partners) and strategic ones (advisory bodies), the CGIAR is inevitably confronted with governance and co-ordination challenges (Kassam, 2006;Alston et al 1998). In the first quarter of the century after their establishment, the centers remained under a loosely-knit, decentralized structure and received a large share of unrestricted funds based on voluntary contributions (Anderson, 1998).…”

Section: The International Agricultural Research System: Rationale Ementioning

confidence: 99%