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-Between 2001 and 2012 we observed the best performance of LAC’s agriculture of the last 30 years
-Policy changes and high commodity prices seem to have played a major role in this improved performance.
-Most important, a better policy environment allowed countries to incorporate new technologies that resulted from regional R&D investment and a growing contribution of the private sector.
-Without fast growing prices and no positive shock from policy changes, future growth will depend on the development of efficient innovation systems in the region
-In order to feed a growing population and to address other challenges (including climate change and food price volatility), it is crucial that agricultural productivity is increased.
-Agricultural R&D is a major contributor to productivity growth, food security, and poverty reduction.
-Quantitative data are essential to analyze trends in agricultural R&D investments; identify gaps; set future investment priorities; and better coordinate agricultural R&D across institutes, regions, and commodities.
-R&D indicators are also an indispensable tool when assessing the contribution of agricultural R&D to agricultural growth and to economic growth more generally.
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IFPRI South Asia researchers Devesh Roy, Ruchira Boss, Mamata Pradhan and Manmeet Ajmani presented ‘Understanding the landscape of pulse policy in India and implications for trade’ to the Global Pulse Federation. The paper examines Indian policy around production, consumption and trade. The need for pulse trade policy in India to be supportive of Domestic priorities focused on serving interest of both India’s farmers and consumers.
The International Food Policy Research Institute – South Asia Regional Office (IFPRI-SAR) has extensively worked in Nepal on a wide range of policy issues in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, Government of Nepal. The key outputs from this engagement have been published in a book, Agricultural Transformation in Nepal: Trends, Prospects and Policy Options. The book addresses some of the key strategic agricultural policy questions on major contemporary developments and emerging challenges in Nepal. The book also covers on issues leading to the changing role of agriculture with economic growth, structural transformation and poverty reduction, improvement in nutritional outcomes, as well as challenges of tackling climate change.
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More info and full recording of this webinar:
https://bit.ly/COVID-FVC
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Gashaw Tadesse Abate - Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
Abut Hayat Md. Saiful Islam – Professor at Department of Agricultural Economics at Bangladesh Agricultural University in Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
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■ What is the role of trade in improving food security, nutrition, and sustainability?
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■ How does reform of developed-country farm support policies affect global food security?
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1. Comparative Science, Technology, and
Innovation Systems
in
Developing-Country Agriculture
What Can We Measure and What Can We Not?
David J Spielman
International Food Policy Research Institute
Washington, DC
April 19, 2013
2. Metrics and measurements
• Technical & economic indicators
• Innovation system indicators
• Measurement issues
3. Technical & economic indicators
Inputs
• Public investment in agricultural R&D
– Pardey & Roseboom (1989); Pardey & Beintema (2000); Beintema et al. (2012)
Outputs
• New varieties, practices, technologies, systems
• Publications, patents, and variety registrations
Outcomes
• Changes in cereal, livestock yields; natural resource stocks
• Changes in agricultural total factor productivity change (Coelli & Rao 2003)
Impacts
• Rates of returns to agricultural R&D
– Alston, Norton, & Pardey (1995); Alston et al. (2000)
• Contribution of R&D to productivity growth
– Evenson & Gollin (2003); Evenson & Rosegrant (2003)
• Contribution of R&D to poverty reduction
– Fan, Hazell & Thorat (2000); Hazell & Haddad (2001); Adato, Meinzen-Dick & Suseela (2007)
4. Input indicators:
Public expenditure on agricultural R&D
0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
8,000
9,000
1981 1984 1987 1990 1993 1996 1999 2002 2005 2008
Constant(2005)US$mPPP
Sub-Saharan Africa (45)
China
India
Asia & Pacific (26)
Brazil
Latin America & Caribbean (28)
West Asia & North Africa (13)
Source: Beintema & Stads (2012); ASTI (2012)
5. Output indicators:
R&D on improved nutritional/quality traits
In regulatory
In research articles
Source: Graff, Zilberman, & Bennett (2010)
In initial field trials
In advanced field trials
6. Output indicators:
Contributions of genetic improvement to yield growth
51%
83%
56%
23%
66%
88%
69%
28%
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Latin America Asia Middle East/North
Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
Share of area to modern varieties (1998)
Total genetic improvement contribution to yield growth (1965-1998, % per year)
Sources: Renkow & Byerlee (2010); Evenson & Gollin (2003)
8. Agricultural innovation system
Agroprocessors
Exporters
Producer
organizations
Input suppliers
Credit agencies
Land agencies
Government policy and regulatory framework
Informal institutions, practices, behaviors, and attitudes
Consumers
Standards agencies
Farmers
National extension and
business development
services
National
agricultural
research system
National education and
training organizations
Farmers &
entrepreneurs
Bridging and coordination
organizations
Science, technology, and innovation systems
Source: World Bank (2012)
9. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Bangladesh
Burkina Faso
Senegal
Ghana
Kenya
India
China
South Africa
Thailand
Brazil
United States
Finland
Index (1-7)
Source: World Economic Forum (2013)
Global competitiveness index
10. Knowledge economy index
Source: World Bank (2012)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Finland
United States
Brazil
Thailand
South Africa
China
India
Kenya
Ghana
Senegal
Burkina Faso
Bangladesh
Index score (1−10)
ICT Education Innovation Economic Incentive Regime
12. • Epistemological debate
– Can quantitative measures adequately explain a system that is highly
complex, context-specific, and endogenous?
• Methodological debate
– How robust is the selection, construction, and interpretation of
indicators?
• Policy debate
– Can measurements of innovation influence policy change?
Challenges in
measuring science, technology, and innovation