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A Sustainability Challenge: Food Security for All: Report of Two Workshops

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National Research Council, Committee on Food Security for All as a Sustainability Challenge
Publisher:
National Academies Press, 2012, 261 pages.
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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.

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Research Lags Revisited: Concepts and Evidence from U.S. Agriculture

Authored by:
Alston, Julian M.; Pardey, Philip G.; Ruttan, Vernon W.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota, International Science and Technology Practice and Policy Center (InSTePP), December 2008, Staff Paper P08-14; InSTePP Paper 08-02, 59 pages.
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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.

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Science, Technology and Skills

Authored by:
Pardey, Philip G.; James, Jennifer; Alston, Julian; Wood, Stanley; Koo, Bonwoo; Binenbaum, Eran; Hurley, Terrance M.; Glewwe, Paul; Mayer, Jorge; Jones, Richard; De Groote, Hugo; Kanampiu, Fred; McDermott, John; Jost, Christine; Mariner, Jeffrey
Publisher:
University of Minnesota, International Science and Technology Practice and Policy Center (InSTePP), October, 2007, 95 pages.
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Chapter/Section Titles: Introduction: Global agricultural productivity, Crop yield variability; The changing context for agricultural R&D...

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