The National Research Council's Science and Technology for Sustainability Program hosted two workshops in 2011 addressing the sustainability challenges associated with food security for all.
This article develops a framework to examine the ex ante benefits of transgenic research on drought in eight low-income countries, including the benefits to producers and consumers from farm income stabilization and the potential magnitude of private sector profits from intellectual property rights (IPRs).
Research Futures: Projecting Agricultural R&D Potentials for Latin America and the Caribbean, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), May 2009, 239-242.
Alston, Julian M.; Pardey, Philip G.; Ruttan, Vernon W.
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University of Minnesota, International Science and Technology Practice and Policy Center (InSTePP), December 2008, Staff Paper P08-14; InSTePP Paper 08-02, 59 pages.
Many researchers and commentators underestimate the length and importance of the time lags between initial research investment and ultimate impacts on the development and adoption of technological innovations.
