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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.
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Strengthening National Agricultural Research Systems : Policy Issues and Good Practice Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Series. Rural Development
author
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Byerlee, Derek.; Alex, Gary E.
publisher
:
World Bank
isbn10 | asin
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0821341731
print isbn13
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9780821341735
ebook isbn13
:
9780585183138
language
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English
subject
National agricultural research systems--Developing countries, Agriculture--Research--Government policy--Developing countries, World Bank.
publication date
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1998
lcc
:
S542.3.B94 1998eb
ddc
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630/.7/201724
subject
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National agricultural research systems--Developing countries, Agriculture--Research--Government policy--Developing countries, World Bank.
Page i
Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development
Rural Development
Strengthening National Agricultural Research Systems
Policy Issues and Good Practice
Derek Byerlee Gary E. Alex
Page ii
Copyright 1998 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/THE WORLD BANK 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20433, U.S.A.
All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing February 1998
This report has been prepared by the staff of the World Bank. The judgments expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the Board of Executive Directors or the governments they represent.
Cover: Pigeonpea farmers near Makindu, Kenya, learn that they have much to gain from adopting extra-short-duration varieties. Photo from the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
Derek Byerlee is principal economist in the Rural Development Family of the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network in the World Bank. Gary E. Alex is a consultant to the Agricultural Research and Extension Group (ESDAR), also in the Rural Development Family.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Byerlee, Derek Strengthening national agricultural research systems : policy issues and good practice / Derek Byerlee and Gary Alex. p. cm.(Environmentally and socially sustainable development series. Rural development) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8213-4173-1 1. National agricultural research systemsDeveloping countries. 2. AgricultureResearchGovernment policyDeveloping countries. 3. World Bank. I. Alex, Gary E. II. Series. S542.3.B94 1998 630'.7'201724dc21 97-51583 CIP
The text and the cover are printed on recycled paper, with a flood aqueous coating on the cover.
Page iii
Contents
Acknowledgments
vi
Foreword
vii
Abbreviations and Acronyms
ix
Executive Summary
1
Introduction and Objectives
9
Chapter 1 Recent Evolution of National Agricultural Research Systems
11
Investment in National Agricultural Research Systems
11
Payoffs to Research Investments
13
The Changing Agricultural Research Agenda
14
Emerging Institutional Challenges in National Agricultural Research Systems
16
Chapter 2 National Research System Development: Issues and Good Practice
18
Conceptual Overview of the Emerging National Agricultural Research Systems
18
Coordination in the Emerging National Agricultural Research Systems
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The text and the cover are printed on recycled paper, with a flood aqueous coating on the cover.