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Contributions of National Agricultural Research Systems to Crop Productivity

In: Handbook of Agricultural Economics

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  • Evenson, Robert E.
  • Gollin, Douglas

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This chapter describes the impact of national agricultural research systems on the unfolding of the Green Revolution in four regions: Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Although international institutions contributed much of the research that led to the Green Revolution, national programs also proved important in the development and diffusion of modern varieties. This chapter documents the Green Revolutions that occurred in 11 food crops - wheat, rice, maize, barley, sorghum, millets, lentils, groundnuts, beans, cassava and potatoes. The chapter traces the overall role of national institutions and the growing importance of national agricultural research systems in the developing world. It also discusses the interaction of National Agricultural Research Systems and International Agricultural Research Centers, which have largely played complementary roles. Finally, it discusses the political economy of support for national agricultural research.

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  • Evenson, Robert E. & Gollin, Douglas, 2007. "Contributions of National Agricultural Research Systems to Crop Productivity," Handbook of Agricultural Economics, in: Robert Evenson & Prabhu Pingali (ed.), Handbook of Agricultural Economics, edition 1, volume 3, chapter 46, pages 2419-2459, Elsevier.
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    1. Warr, Peter, 2023. "Economic Returns to Agricultural Research: Thailand and Indonesia," Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development, Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), vol. 20(1), June.
    2. Jia, Xiangping, 2009. "Synergistic Green and White Revolution: Evidence from Kenya and Uganda," 2009 Conference, August 16-22, 2009, Beijing, China 51367, International Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Li, Xianmei & Yu, Guoxin & Wen, Liping & Liu, Guoyong, 2023. "Research on the effect of agricultural science and technology service supply from the perspective of farmers' differentiation," Innovation and Green Development, Elsevier, vol. 2(3).
    4. Peter Warr, 2022. "Research and productivity in Indonesian agriculture," Departmental Working Papers 2022-02, The Australian National University, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics.
    5. Pratt, Alejandro Nin & Fan, Shenggen, 2010. "R&D investment in national and international agricultural research," IFPRI discussion papers 986, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

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    Keywords

    Farmers; Farm Production and Farm Markets;

    JEL classification:

    • Q1 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture

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