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Author: Rigoberto Stewart
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 80
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBackground; The national agricultural research system; Impact of international agricultural research centers on the national agricultural research system; Research impacts on agricultural productions.
Author: Joachim Von Braun
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0896290751
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Publisher: IRRI
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 732
ISBN-13: 9711042169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stoian, D.
Publisher: CIFOR
Published: 2018-12-15
Total Pages: 8
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommunity enterprises that manage forest concessions in the Multiple Use Zone (MUZ) of the Maya Biosphere Reserve (MBR) in Petén, Guatemala, generate environmental benefits for society and socioeconomic benefits for local communities in return for rights to use and manage resources in the MUZ. Along with the documented evidence of environmental impacts, the results of this analysis suggest a positive relationship between socioeconomic progress (income, investments, savings, capitalization of community enterprises as well as asset building at household and enterprise level) and conservation of the areas under concession (deforestation rates close to zero in active community concessions). Forest income, its reinvestment, and access to local and external financing have allowed the community enterprises to diversify activities, generate higher added value, develop new products and insert them into value chains of timber and non-timber forest products. The combined evidence of the community concessions’ environmental and socioeconomic performance makes a strong case for concession renewal, which is due over the next few years. The enabling conditions for the management of the concessions by community forest enterprises have improved over the past two decades and provide lessons for strengthening governance in other zones of the MBR and elsewhere in Latin America and beyond.
Author: Philip G. Pardey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-01-05
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780521543330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFully-sourced country-specific files on the basic resources committed to national agricultural research systems for 154 developing and developed countries.
Author: David Harry Timothy
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 94
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lee R. Martin
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 1073
ISBN-13: 1452901791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nagaraji, Satish
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2023-02-06
Total Pages: 13
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis technical brief provides an overview of the digital development gaps and challenges in Guatemala's agrifood systems. Based on the USAID Digital Ecosystem Framework, 323 actors across 14 types of organizations were identified as digital agrifood innovators in the country. In-depth assessments on challenges and opportunities were conducted on 50 select actors using a new survey instrument, Rapid Screening Tool. We find that Guatemala has a good mix of founders, technical resources, an educated workforce, and a growing tech industry. The government's substantial efforts toward digital society, rights, and data governance were remarkable. However, major challenges constraining digital ecosystems were weak digital literacy, inadequate infrastructure, and low affordability of digital technologies and solutions for both users and service providers in rural areas. We recommend specific actions for CGIAR to support partners in realizing the transformative potential of digital innovations.
Author: Nin-Pratt, Alejandro
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 2022-02-10
Total Pages: 78
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2019 report of the Global Commission on Adaptation for accelerated action to adapt to climate change included a call for increased allocation of resources to international agricultural research. The production and adaptation challenges faced by agriculture will be most acutely felt in Africa and South Asia, focus regions of the CGIAR, the world’s largest public food systems research network. These challenges come at a time when the CGIAR is undergoing a transformation of its partnerships, knowledge, assets and global presence, emerging as One CGIAR, aimed at sharpening its mission and impact focus to 2030 and beyond, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals. Evidence on the impacts of CGIAR research since the 1980s have consistently found high rates of return to investment. How could this evidence on the performance of the CGIAR and its partnership with NARS in developing regions be used to inform investment priority setting and to achieve the One CGIAR goals in the coming years? We used detailed R&D investment data from the CGIAR, NARS (ASTI) and evidence from the literature on returns to CGIAR investment by crop and region to develop and calibrate a model of R&D investment that allows us to conduct priority-setting analysis of alternative CGIAR investment across research activities and regions. The model developed can be linked to global partial equilibrium and economy-wide forward-looking models to analyze the effect of different CGIAR investment options under alternative future scenarios. We checked the plausibility of the results obtained by the model calculating the Benefit-Cost ratio of historical CGIAR investments and found that each dollar invested by the CGIAR between 1971 and 2018 returned almost 10 dollars in output as the result of increased productivity, which is within the range of returns found by most recent meta-analyses impact of CGIAR investment. An application of the model to SSA shows that the best results for the CGIAR are obtained from investments in cassava and potato in Southern Africa; yams, sorghum, cassava and groundnuts in West Africa; cassava in East Africa and groundnuts and shoats in the Sahel.
Author: Donald L. Plucknett
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 74
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper reviews the history of quarantine services, discusses principles for successful quarantine operations and identifies major constraints to the exchange of plant materials due to quarantine restrictions and procedures. It also explores some of the difficulties faced by quarantine services, plant breeders, and genebank curators in attempting to detect diseases or pests and clean up seeds and vegetative materials. The paper examines disease and pest screening techniques, with an emphasis on emerging biotechnologies that are revolutionizing diagnostic and clean up work for plant germplasm. It underscores the importance of intermediate quarantine, particularly for tropical cash crops. Finally, the paper analyzes ways to strengthen quarantine services worldwide so that crop improvement programs can operate more efficiently and effectively.
