Paying for Agricultural Productivity

by Alston, Julian M.; Pardey, Philip G.; International Food Policy Research Institute

• ISBN13: 9780801862786
• ISBN10: 0801862787
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-09
• Publisher: Intl Food Policy Research Inst

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	xi
Foreword	xv
Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Preface	xvii
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction	1	(5)
Julian M. Alston
Philip G. Pardey
Michael Phillips
The Economics of Agricultural R&D Policy	6	(25)
Julian M. Alston
Philip G. Pardey
Agricultural R&D Investments and Impacts	31	(38)
Philip G. Pardey
Johannes Roseboom
Barbara J. Craig
Agricultural R&D Investments and Institutions in the United States	69	(49)
Julian M. Alston
Jason E. Christian
Philip G. Pardey
Agricultural R&D Policy in Australia	118	(54)
Julian M. Alston
Michael S. Harris
John D. Mullen
Philip G. Pardey
Agricultural R&D Policy in the United Kingdom	172	(43)
Colin Thirtle
Jenifer Piesse
Vincent H. Smith
Financing Agricultural R&D in the Netherlands: The Changing Role of Government	215	(32)
Johannes Roseboom
Hans Rutten
Agricultural R&D Policy in New Zealand	247	(29)
Veronica Jacobsen
Grant M. Scobie
A Synthesis	276	(7)
Julian M. Alston
Philip G. Pardey
Vincent H. Smith
References	283	(20)
Contributors	303	(2)
Index	305