Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Agricultural Economics Research
Author: Economics of Research and Innovation in Agriculture
Author: Petra MoserPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022677905X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
"The challenges facing agriculture are plenty. Along with the world's growing population and diminishing amounts of water and arable land, the gradual increase in severe weather presents new challenges and imperatives for producing new, more resilient crops to feed a more crowded planet in the twenty-first century. Innovation has historically helped agriculture keep pace with earth's social, population, and ecological changes. In the last 50 years, mechanical, biological, and chemical innovations have more than doubled agricultural output while barely changing input quantities. The ample investment behind these innovations was available because of a high rate of return: a 2007 paper found that the median ROI in agriculture was 45 percent between 1965 and 2005. This landscape has changed. Today many of the world's wealthier countries have scaled back their share of GDP devoted to agricultural R&D amid evidence of diminishing returns. Universities, which have historically been a major source of agricultural innovation, increasingly depend on funding from industry rather than government to fund their research. As Upton Sinclair wrote of the effects industry influences, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." In this volume of the NBER Conference Report series, editor Petra Moser offers an empirical, applied-economic framework to the different elements of agricultural R&D, particularly as they relate to the shift from public to private funding. Individual chapters examine the sources of agricultural knowledge and investigate challenges for measuring the returns to the adoption of new agricultural technologies, examine knowledge spillovers from universities to agricultural innovation, and explore interactions between university engagement and scientific productivity. Additional analysis of agricultural venture capital point to it as an emerging and future source of resource in this essential domain"--
The Journal of Agricultural Economics Research
Author: Changing Missions of Agricultural Economics Research
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Agricultural Economics Research
Author: Agricultural Economic Report
Author: Journal of Agricultural Economics Research
Author: The Work of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute
Author: University of Oxford. Agricultural Economics Research InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural associations
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Research Method and Procedure in Agricultural Economics
Author: Social Science Research Council (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Research Topics in Agricultural and Applied Economics
Author: Anthony N. RezitisPublisher: Bentham Science Publishers
ISBN: 160805263X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
The aim of the Ebook series of Research Topics in Agricultural & Applied Economics (RTAAE) is to publish high quality economic researches applied to both the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors of the economy. The subject areas of this E-book series include, among others, supply and demand analysis, technical change and productivity, industrial organization, labor economics, growth and development, environmental economics, marketing, business economics and finance. By covering a broad variety of economic research topics, this Ebook series should prove to be of considerable interest to a.