Science, Technology and Skills

• Tác giả: Philip Pardey
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 372.35 Science and technology
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC: World Bank, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 244188
• Chủ đề: 1. World Development Report 2008

Tóm tắt

 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.