Download or read book Priority setting Mechanisms for National Agricultural Research Systems written by George W. Norton and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strengthening National Agricultural Research Systems written by Derek Byerlee and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Guide to Program Planning and Priority Setting written by Marie-Hélène J. Collion and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is an english translation of ISNARs Research Man-agement guidelines no. 2, guide d'elaboration de programmes et d'establissememt de priorites. That original publication describes a methodology coming out of years of collaboration between INRA and ISNAR. The history of that effort is well described below by the director general of INRA of that time. Since 1993, ISNAR has extended its collaboration with in a number of new domains with the ful support and guidance of INRA's present director general, a. Arifi. Recognizing that the approaches developed jointly with Morocco can serve other developing countries, he has allowed INRA experts to participate in program-formulation and priority-setting exercieses in other are forthcoming in the framework of this continued collaboration.
Download or read book Priority Setting in Agricultural Biotechnology Research written by Thomas Braunschweig and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Setting Priorities for Agricultural Research Facilities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations and Nutrition and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science Under Scarcity written by Julian M. Alston and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Resources for agricultural science are scarce across the world. Yet even as resources are shrinking, agricultural science has expanded its inquiry into many new areas - such as environmental preservation, food quality, and rural development - without forsaking its more traditional concerns. In a time of right government budgets, research administrators are faced with the need to provide strong evidence that costs are justified by benefits. Science under Scarcity is an invaluable guide to the theory and methods necessary for evaluating research in agriculture and for setting priorities for resource allocation." "Although economists have made significant progress in developing more sophisticated methods for research evaluation and priority setting, many research analysts and administrators do not have a working knowledge of those practices. Without the assistance of formal economic analysis it is particularly difficult to assess the social value of new technologies or to make informed judgments about the trade-offs that are involved in allocation decisions. Addressing that knowledge gap, Science under Scarcity reviews, synthesizes, and extends such methods as economic surplus analysis, econometric techniques, mathematical programming procedures, and scoring models. It discusses these practices in the context of scientific policy, describes their conceptual foundations, and explains how to do them."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Prioritizing Agricultural Research for Development written by David A. Raitzer and published by CABI. This book was released on 2009 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Priority assessment for commodity improvement programmes has received methodological attention, yet innovation is needed for other, newer areas of research which have impact pathways that are harder to predict. Focusing on priority setting practices utilized in different international agricultural research institutes, this book discusses real world experiences and innovations with priority assessment methods. Chapters present approaches that have been used to articulate, explore and assess impact pathways and research priorities, while also considering their strengths and weaknesses and drawing together methodological lessons.
Download or read book Agricultural Research Priority Setting written by Bradford Mills and published by Isnar International Service for National Agricultural. This book was released on 1998 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role OF and levels for agricultural research priority setting; Research objectives and priority-setting criteria; Spatial targeting of program research; Translating farmer constraints into research themes; Methods for prioritizing research options; Data requirements for agricultural research priority setting; Information and human resource investments for research priority setting; Technology, location, and trade: Kenyan vegetables; Beyond economic benefits: sorghum in Kenya; Priority setting in a production-factor research program.
Download or read book The Paradox of Success written by Jean Lipman-Blumen and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Assessment of the United States Food and Agricultural Research System written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impact of Foreign Assistance on Institutional Development of National Agricultural Research Systems in Sub Saharan Africa written by Gora Beye and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the analysis and assessment of foreign assistance provided by 36 agricultural research projects in seven selected countries of sub-Saharan Africa. It traces the evolution of national agricultural research systems (NARS) from independence to the present. It highlights the development of the NARS with regard to infrastructure, human resources and funding as a consequence of foreign assistance. The constraints to NARS institutional development are identified and recommendations made.
Download or read book A Decision Support System to Assist Agricultural Research Priority Setting written by Ryan J. G. (James G.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A I D Research and Development Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evaluation of Federal Programs in Agricultural Research Education and Extension written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Resource Conservation, Research, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three House of Representatives' subcommittee hearings were held in March, May, and July 1996 to evaluate the goals, priority setting, and advisory mechanisms of federal programs in agricultural research, education, and extension. To become competitive in global markets, farmers will need to rely on the research community to provide up-to-date technology and market information. The purpose of the hearings was to establish research priorities for the 21st century, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the federal research investment, and improve accountability through the establishment of a coordinated advisory and priority setting mechanism. Testimony was received from U.S. Senators and Representatives; Under-Secretaries from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA); and spokespersons for agribusiness associations, agricultural science associations, research institutions, land grant universities, and the Extension Service. The following topics were discussed: the role of the National Center for Agricultural Utilization and Research (Peoria, Illinois) in commercialization of agricultural products; financial and political threats to the federal government's role in agricultural research and education; research priorities related to human nutrition, new agricultural and livestock pests and diseases, food safety, and farming's environmental issues; replacing petrochemical ingredients in industrial products with agriculture-based ingredients; proposed participants and processes in setting research priorities for government funding; importance of sustainable agriculture; the needs of rural families and communities that are not usually well supported in USDA budgets and extension programs; worldwide research on consumer food preferences; structure and funding of federally funded agricultural research programs conducted by land grant universities, the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and the agribusiness industry; and the role and methods of the Cooperative Extension Service in disseminating research-based information to farmers. (SV)
Download or read book Policy For Agricultural Research written by Vernon W Ruttan and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1987-10-15 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global perspectives; Crisis and reform in the U.S. Agricultural Research System; Research organization and reform in developing countries; The emerging role of the private sector in agricultural research.
Download or read book Cities and Their Vital Systems written by Advisory Committee on Technology and Society and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities and Their Vital Systems asks basic questions about the longevity, utility, and nature of urban infrastructures; analyzes how they grow, interact, and change; and asks how, when, and at what cost they should be replaced. Among the topics discussed are problems arising from increasing air travel and airport congestion; the adequacy of water supplies and waste treatment; the impact of new technologies on construction; urban real estate values; and the field of "telematics," the combination of computers and telecommunications that makes money machines and national newspapers possible.
Download or read book The National Agricultural Research Systems in the West Asia and North Africa Region written by and published by ICARDA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
