On the organisation of agricultural research in the United Kingdom, 1945–1994: A quantitative description and appraisal of recent reforms

Thirtle, Colin; Palladino, Paolo; Piesse, Jenifer

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“…It was replaced by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in 1993. Between 1981Between / 1982Between and 1987Between /1988, ARC funding fell by 23 per cent as a result of the government's belief that it should not fund near-market research [107]. 20 Total livestock exports from the UK rose from just under 950 000 in 1976-1980 to over 1.5 million in 1991-1995.…”

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“…His recommendations resulted in additional cuts to an already contracting SVS, and the closure of several regional centres. Meanwhile, the government lowered funding for agricultural and veterinary research, reduced the size of the Veterinary Investigation Service, and-in pursuit of efficiency savings-turned it and the Central Veterinary Laboratory into arms-length agencies [106,107]. 19 Concurrent efforts to harmonize trade within the EU, and to reform the CAP by reducing international trading barriers led to an increase in the scale and frequency of international livestock movements, 20 and the reappearance of FMD in several countries that were formerly free of the disease [10,91].…”

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A historical synopsis of farm animal disease and public policy in twentieth century Britain

Woods

2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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The diseases suffered by British livestock, and the ways in which they were perceived and managed by farmers, vets and the state, changed considerably over the course of the twentieth century. This paper documents and analyses these changes in relation to the development of public policy. It reveals that scientific knowledge and disease demographics cannot by themselves explain the shifting boundaries of state responsibility for animal health, the diseases targeted and the preferred modes of intervention. Policies were shaped also by concerns over food security and the public's health, the state of the national and livestock economy, the interests and expertise of the veterinary profession, and prevailing agricultural policy. This paper demonstrates how, by precipitating changes to farming and trading practices, public policy could sometimes actually undermine farm animal health. Animal disease can therefore be viewed both as a stimulus to, and a consequence of, twentieth century public policy.

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A historical synopsis of farm animal disease and public policy in twentieth century Britain

Woods

2011

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…A commodity group is then designated to manage the check-off funds, e.g, theNational Pork Council, the National Com Growers Association, National Soybean Association, National Cattlemen's Association. In Canada and the United Kingdom, national legislation has also enabled producer commodity councils to funding research and other activities (Huffman and Just 1998b;Guitard 1985;Smith 1996;Thirtle et. al 1997).…”

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“…They simulate the counter-factual scenario of holding public technology policy constant at its initial (or 1950) (Thirtle, et al 1997). The latest major redirection of U.K. public agricultural research started in 1982.…”

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“…In the United Kingdom, therecent redirection of agricultural research funds away from the Ministry ofAgriculture, Food, and Fisheries to the Higher Education Institutes and establishment of newstatutory bodies (commodity groups) to fiind agricultural research represents a new emphasis onnontraditional agricultural research funding (Smith 1996;Thirtle, et. al.…”

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Finance, Organization, and Impacts of U.S. Agricultural Research: Future Prospects

Huffman

2001

Knowledge Generation and Technical Change

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The objective of this paper is to review key conceptual issues in the finance, management, and economic impact analysis of agricultural research of the U.S. and other western developed countries, to critique evidence on the impacts of R&D, to summarize new developments and emerging trends in agricultural science policy, and to speculate about the likely effect of these trends during the 21st century on impacts of R&D. The conceptual review emphasizes refinements in the theory of public goodsassociated with a class of impure publicgoods. Some overall conclusions are presented for U.S. agricultural research policy of the 21st century ' Paper prepared for conference, "Knowledge Generation and Transfer: Implications for Agriculture inthe 21st Century,"University of California-Berkeley, June 18-19, 1998. The author isProfessor, Iowa State University. He is indebted to Iowa State University for financial assistance, especially for a faculty improvement leave spent atthe University ofMaryland during spring semester 1998. The revision has benefitted from a set of comments received from Steve Wolf and from discussion at the conference. AbstractFinance, Organization, and Impacts of U.S.Agricultural Research: Future Prospects

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Origins of Public-Private Knowledge Flows and Current State-of-the-Art

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Faulkner

2001

Knowledge Generation and Technical Change

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On the organisation of agricultural research in the United Kingdom, 1945–1994: A quantitative description and appraisal of recent reforms

Cited by 24 publications

References 7 publications

A historical synopsis of farm animal disease and public policy in twentieth century Britain

A historical synopsis of farm animal disease and public policy in twentieth century Britain

Finance, Organization, and Impacts of U.S. Agricultural Research: Future Prospects

Origins of Public-Private Knowledge Flows and Current State-of-the-Art

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