Author: Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Advisory Committee on Social and Economic Research in AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Research in Public Finance in Relation to Agriculture
Author: Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Advisory Committee on Social and Economic Research in AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Research in Public Finance in Relation to Agriculture
Author: Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Advisory Committee on Social and Economic Research in AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture
Author: Petra MoserPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022677905X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
"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"--
Research in Public Finance in Relation to Agriculture
Author: Social Science Research Council. Advisory Committee on Social and Economic Research in AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Financial Management for Local Governments
Author: Agricultural Public Finance Policy in Asia
Author: Advisory Committee on Social and Economic Research in Agriculture. Research in Public Finance in Relation to Agriculture ... John D. Black, Editor
Author: Social Science Research Council. Advisory Committee on Social Andeconomic Research in AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Financing Agricultural Research in a Federal System of Government
Author: David B. SchweikhardtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Making Science Pay
Author: Julian M. AlstonPublisher: American Enterprise Institute
ISBN: 9780844739007
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
This volume examines current agricultural R&D policy, evaluating it in the context of the 100-plus-year history of U.S. public-sector agricultural R&D institutions and expenditures.
Public expenditure on food and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Pernechele, V., Fontes, F., Baborska, R., Nkuingoua, J., Pan, X., Tuyishime, C.Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9251343446
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Monitoring and analysing food and agriculture policies and their effects is crucial to support decision makers in developing countries to shape better policies that drive agricultural and food systems transformation. This report is a technical analysis of government spending data on food and agriculture during 2004–2018 in 13 sub-Saharan African countries – Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. It analyses the level of public expenditure, including budget execution, source of funding and decentralized spending, as well as the composition of expenditure, including on producer or consumer support, research and development, infrastructure and more to reveal the trends and challenges that countries are facing. It also delves into the relationship between the composition of public expenditure and agricultural performance.As a way forward for future policymaking, the report offers a set of recommendations to strengthen policy monitoring systems and data generation for effective public investments in food and agriculture.The report is produced by the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme at FAO in collaboration with MAFAP country partners.