Improving Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems: OECD Conference Proceedings, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), February, 2012, 19-40.
In recent decades, we have witnessed in most countries a slowdown in the rate of growth in spending on agricultural Research and Development (R&D) — especially R&D oriented to enhancing farm productivity.
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.
The Australian Water Project, Volume 1, Crisis and Opportunity: Lessons of Australian Water Reform, Draft Discussion Paper, Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA), 2011, 150-159.
Over the past 50 years and longer, the supply of food commodities has grown faster than the effective market demand, in spite of increasing population and per capita incomes.
Although irrigation in Africa has the potential to boost agricultural productivities by at least 50 percent, food production on the continent is almost entirely rainfed.
