Prioritizing agricultural research for development : experiences and lessons /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Subjects: Agriculture > Research > International cooperation.; Research.; Agencies and Organizations.; Agricultural Economics.; Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Natural Resources (General); Techniques and Methodology.; Agricultural development.; Agricultural research.; CGIAR.; International organizations.; Methodology.; Natural resources.; Research institutes.; Electronic books.
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This book shows how a diversity of methods have been used to fit specific CGIAR Centre contexts (whether global and regional, or research-focused on genetic improvement or natural resources management), with more emphasis on simpler and more transparent methods that are readily understandable to a b...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction to prioritizing agricultural research for development / David A. Raitzer and George W. Norton
• Participatory impact pathways analysis (PIPA) and research priority assessment / Boru Douthwaite, Sophie Alvarez, J.D.H. Keatinge, Ronald Mackay, Graham Thiele and Jamie Watts
• Research priority assessment at the International Potato Center (CIP) / Keith O. Fuglie and Graham Thiele
• The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture's (IITA) experience in priority assessment of agricultural research / Victor M. Manyong, Diakalia Sanogo and Arega D. Alene
• Priority assessment at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) : confronting the challenges of a policy oriented natural resources management research portfolio / David A. Raitzer
• Research evaluation and priority assessment at the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) : continuing cycles of learning to improve impacts / Jupiter Ndjeunga and Cynthia Bantilan
• Using multiple objectives in participatory assessment of international livestock research : lessons learned / Patti Kristjanson, Thomas Randolph, Philip Thornton, Robin Reid and James Ryan
• Priority assessment for rice research in Sub-Saharan Africa / Aliou Diagne, Patrick Kormawa, Ousmane Youm, Shellemiah Keya and Simon N'cho
• Highlights of the evolution of priority assessment and targeting at the International Center for Maize and Wheat Improvement (CIMMYT) / John Dixon and Roberto La Rovere
• The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas' (ICARDA) experience in agricultural research priority assessment / Kamel Shideed, Mahmoud Solh, Ahmed Mazid and Mazen El-Solh
• Strategic priorities for agricultural development in Eastern and Central Africa : a review of the institutional context and methodological approach for undertaking a quantitative, sub-regional assessment / Stanley Wood and Jock R. Anderson
• Methods and approach to identify the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) system priorities for research / Peter Gardiner
• Synthesis and options for enhanced priority assessment for agricultural and natural resources research / George W. Norton and David A. Raitzer.