Science, Technology and Skills

Improvements in agricultural productivity have alleviated much poverty and starvation and fuelled economic progress. However, comparatively little agricultural R&D and "technology tailoring" has been done for the conditions confronting African agriculture. Innovation in African agricul...

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Main Authors:	Pardey, Philip, James, Jennifer, Alston, Julian, Wood, Stanley, Koo, Bonwoo, Binenbaum, Eran, Hurley, Terrance, Glewwe, Paul
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
Subjects:	World Development Report 2008
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9201

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spelling	okr-10986-92012021-04-23T14:02:44Z Science, Technology and Skills Pardey, Philip James, Jennifer Alston, Julian Wood, Stanley Koo, Bonwoo Binenbaum, Eran Hurley, Terrance Glewwe, Paul World Development Report 2008 Improvements in agricultural productivity have alleviated much poverty and starvation and fuelled economic progress. However, comparatively little agricultural R&D and "technology tailoring" has been done for the conditions confronting African agriculture. Innovation in African agriculture and other regions of the developing world will be critical to solving the scourge of hunger and lifting the lot of the billions of the world's people who rely on agriculture for a living, and the entire world's poor who rely on agriculture for their sustenance. A shift in R&D agendas is forcing a rethinking of national and multinational policies. National governments can tailor the institutional and policy details of Intellectual Property Rights to best fit local circumstances; increase the total amount of government funding for their national agricultural R&D systems; introduce institutional arrangements and incentives for private and joint public-private funding; and improve the processes by which agricultural R&D resources are administered and allocated. 2012-06-26T15:41:26Z 2012-06-26T15:41:26Z 2008 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9201 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Africa
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description	Improvements in agricultural productivity have alleviated much poverty and starvation and fuelled economic progress. However, comparatively little agricultural R&D and "technology tailoring" has been done for the conditions confronting African agriculture. Innovation in African agriculture and other regions of the developing world will be critical to solving the scourge of hunger and lifting the lot of the billions of the world's people who rely on agriculture for a living, and the entire world's poor who rely on agriculture for their sustenance. A shift in R&D agendas is forcing a rethinking of national and multinational policies. National governments can tailor the institutional and policy details of Intellectual Property Rights to best fit local circumstances; increase the total amount of government funding for their national agricultural R&D systems; introduce institutional arrangements and incentives for private and joint public-private funding; and improve the processes by which agricultural R&D resources are administered and allocated.
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