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R&D agricole : investir pour l’avenir de l’Afrique; tendances, défis et opportunités
La promesse et les défis inhérents au développement du secteur agricole en Afrique subsaharienne ont incité à l’organisation de la conférence intitulée « R&D agricole : Investir pour l’avenir de l’Afrique – tendances, défis et opportunités ».
Agricultural R&D: investing in Africa’s future analyzing trends, challenges, and opportunities
The goal of the conference was to define a road map for revitalizing agricultural research in the region focusing on four principal themes: -sustainable financing of agricultural research; -training the next generation of agricultural scientists;
Producer funding of R&D in Africa
Government funding for agricultural R&D
Nationally financed agricultural research
The national budget process is an important factor in a government’s ability to implement development plans.
Producer funding of agricultural research
Capacity building in agricultural research
Prioritizing regional agricultural R&D investments in Africa
To achieve the first of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), halving poverty and hunger by 2015, African countries have set a target of 6 percent agricultural GDP growth.
This paper traces the evolution of the innovation systems framework within the agricultural sector in Sub-Saharan Africa, and presents a conceptual framework for agricultural innovation systems.
This study is based on surveys of private-sector innovation and research in Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, and Zambia in 2009 and 2010.
Measuring R&D performance from an innovation systems perspective
This paper combines elements of organizational design, institutional analysis, and innovation systems literature to empirically measure organizational performance of agricultural research agencies in Nigeria and Ghana.
This paper focuses on how supranational collaboration in agricultural research in Sub-Saharan Africa has evolved over the past 10 years.