Philip Pardey

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Principal Investigator

Appointments

Professor
Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota (UMN)
Director
International Science and Technology Practice and Policy Center (InSTePP)
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Expertise

Topics:
Productivity Measures, Targeting/Priority Setting, Income and Poverty, Yield Analysis, Risk, Pests and Diseases, Technology Evaluation, Research Policy, Input Use, Spillovers, Production

Biography

Philip Pardey is professor of science and technology policy in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Minnesota and director of the International Science and Technology Practice and Policy (InSTePP) center. Previously he was a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC where he led the institute's Science and Technology Policy Program, and prior to 1994 at the International Service for National Agricultural Research in The Hague, Netherlands.
He is a graduate of the University of Adelaide, Australia, and obtained a doctoral degree in agricultural and applied economics from the University of Minnesota.
His research deals with the finance and conduct of R&D globally, methods for assessing the economic impacts of research, and the economic and policy (especially intellectual property) aspects of genetic resources and the biosciences. Philip is a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association and a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

Content from Philip Pardey

Right-Sizing Stem-Rust Research
Measuring the Global Occurrence and Probabilistic Consequences of Wheat Stem Rust
Public Food and Agricultural Research in the United States: The Rise and Decline of Public Investments, and Policies for Renewal
Agricultural Innovation: The United States in a Changing Global Reality
A Long-Run View of South African Agricultural Production and Productivity
Recalibrating the Reported Rates of Return to Food and Agricultural R&D
Global and US Trends in Agricultural R&D in a Global Food Security Setting
Agricultural Production, Productivity and R&D over the Past Half Century: An Emerging New World Order
Agricultural Production, Productivity and R&D over the Past Half Century: An Emerging New World Order
The Economic Returns to U.S. Public Agricultural Research
Agricultural Technologies to Feed Future Generations: Reasons to Revitalise
Agricultural R&D, Productivity and Global Food Security (PowerPoint)
A Strategic Look at Global Wheat Production, Productivity and R&D Developments
Emerging Food Security Challenges
South African Agricultural R&D Investments: Sources, Structure, and Trends, 1910-2007
South African Agricultural R&D: Policies and Public Institutions, 1880–2007
Food Commodity Prices in the Long Run: The Crucial Role of Agricultural Research and Productivity
Potential Global Crop Pest Distributions Using CLIMEX: HarvestChoice Applications
Reassessing International Research for Food and Agriculture
South African Agricultural Research and Development: A Century of Change
Projecting Agriculture and Agricultural R&D Potentials
Shifting Patterns of Agricultural Production and Productivity in the United States
Introduction and Overview
Reassessing Public-Private Roles in Agricultural R&D for Economic Development
The Changing Landscape of Global Agriculture
Agricultural Research
South African Agricultural Production and Productivity Patterns
Global Patterns of Crop Yields and Other Partial Productivity Measures and Prices
Shifting Patterns of Global Agricultural Productivity: Synthesis and Conclusion
Research Futures: Projecting Agricultural R&D Potentials for Latin America and the Caribbean
The Economics of Innovation and Technical Change in Agriculture
U.S. Agricultural Research in a Global Food Security Setting: A Report of the CSIS Task Force on Food Security
Climex/Dymex Pest/Disease Modeling (HarvestChoice Modifications)
Agricultural Research, Productivity, and Food Prices in the Long Run
Mendel versus Malthus: Research, Productivity and Food Prices in the Long Run
Investigaciones a Futuro: Proyeccion del Potencial Agropecuario en America Latina y el Caribe
Innovation Implications
Agricultural Productivity
Setting the Economic Scene
Structural Changes in U.S. Agricultural Production and Productivity
The Shifting Global Patterns of Agricultural Productivity
Theme Overview: Agricultural Productivity and Global Food Security in the Long Run
The Economics of Agricultural R&D
Research Lags Revisited: Concepts and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture
Agricultural R&D Policy: A Tragedy of the International Commons
Agricultural R&D Spending at a Critical Crossroads
Science, Technology and Skills
Seed Systems and Millet Crops in Marginal Environments of India: Industry and Policy Perspectives
U.S. Agricultural Research and Technology Policy for the 21st Century
Agricultural R&D Spending at a Crossroads
Agricultural Innovation: Investments and Incentives
Reforming the Agricultural Research and Intellectual Property Rights Systems of China

Author's Events

Fields of Plenty

April, 2013
Source: COSMOS Magazine
Participants:
Philip Pardey

Philip Pardey "points out that it was the investments of 50 years ago that gave us the Green Revolution and averted the widespread famine predicted in the 1960s by ecologists like Paul Ehrlich. His research shows that 50 years is about the lag time before the investment in agricultural R&D fully delivers."

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Without Adequate Funding, Deadly Wheat Disease Could Threaten Global Food Supplies, U of M Scientists Say

April, 2013
Source: University of Minnesota Press Release
Participants:
Philip Pardey, Jason Beddow, Darren Kriticos, Terry Hurley, Robert Sutherst

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Science Daily
April 15, 2013

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Science CoDex
April 15, 2013

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Phys.org
April 15, 2013

New Strains Of Common Wheat Diseases May Threaten Global Food Supplies In The Coming Years, Researchers Warn
Planet Save
April 15, 2013

"The study, published in the current edition of the journal Science, examines how Ug99 – new virulent forms of stem rust first found in Uganda in 1999—could continue its movement across Africa, the Middle East and southwest Asia. It threatens food supplies for millions of people who depend on wheat and other small grains. Scientists have developed new wheat varieties with some resistance to the deadly disease, but the disease evolves and mutates into new forms, requiring new resistant varieties to be developed. "

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Wheat Disease Threatens Global Food Supplies

April, 2013
Source: ABC News (Australia)
Participants:
Darren Kriticos, Philip Pardey

Audio Interview: Wheat Disease Threat: More Research Needed

Darren Kriticos and Philip Pardey point to their teams findings published in journal Science to encourage increased investment in wheat stem rust research.

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Science magazine: Global research to control stem rust disease saves wheat farmers losses worth US $1.12 billion per year

April, 2013
Source: CIMMYT
Participants:
Philip Pardey, Jason Beddow, Darren Kriticos, Terry Hurley, Robert Sutherst

"A study just published in Science by scientists from the University of Minnesota, CSIRO, the University of Sydney, the University of Queensland, and CIMMYT shows that research to control the wheat disease known as stem rust during 1961-2009 has added 6.2 million tons annually to world wheat harvests, worth US $1.12 billion per year at 2010 prices."

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R&D Cuts Hurting Agriculture

February, 2013
Source: Weekly Times
Participants:
Philip Pardey

Philip Pardey says R&D investment was a "crucial determinant of agricultural productivity and production". But a lack of government spending means the "die is already cast" for Australian agriculture in the near future.

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