PAYING FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
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Edited by Julian M. Alston, Philip G. Pardey, and Vincent Smith 336 pages / 1999 $21.50 paperback / ISBN 0-8018-6278-7 $59.95 hardcover / ISBN 0-8018-6185-3 Pricing for U.S. only. Foreign pricing also available.
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Agricultural research and development has stimulated enormous increases in agricultural productivity in the twentieth century. Now, in response to common pressures, countries the world over are changing how they manage and pay for agricultural R&D. Paying for Agricultural Productivity reviews agricultural R&D policy in Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States and assesses whether the new approaches are raising or lowering the efficiency and effectiveness of R&D. To complement the case studies, the book analyzes trends in R&D investment in twenty-two developed countries. Paying for Agricultural Productivity will be an invaluable resource for economic and development specialists concerned with agricultural research and development, as well as for farmers, food processors, agricultural wholesalers and retailers, environmentalists, and research scientists.
WHAT OTHERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THIS BOOK
"Paying for Agricultural Productivity contains a clear statement of the principles that underlie public support for R&D and a series of empirically rich case studies of the changing agricultural research systems in five important countries. Policymakers, and anyone who wishes to understand the relationship between R&D and agricultural productivity, will find this work of great value."-- Stan Metcalfe, Professor of Economics, University of Manchester"I have been a farmer, an agricultural economist, and a government minister. This book provides the best analysis of principles for agricultural R&D policy and investments that I have read. Here for the first time we are given not only economic insights into the problems, but also a basis for assessing the best roles for all players in the R&D game."
-- John Kerin, former Minister for Primary Industries, Australia
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Julian M. Alston is a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California at Davis. Philip G. Pardey is a research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute and an associate professor in the University of Minnesota Department of Applied Economics. Vincent Smith is a professor in the Department of Economics and Agricultural Economics at Montana State University.
DETAILED HIGHLIGHTS
For more detailed highlights of the book, see Food Policy Statement 30.TOP of the page