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This section provides a platform to inform decisions about investments in, adoption of, and commercial prospects for new agricultural technologies.

Upwards of half the local benefits from agricultural productivity improvements are attributable to R&D done elsewhere. The results of R&D spill across national and sub-national borders and their productivity potentials vary spatially in response to a host of agro-ecological, production system, economic and commercial considerations. HarvestChoice pays particular attention to these technology spillover effects and in this section we present a range of spillover indicators.

What Can be Done to Reinvigorate U.S. Agricultural Research? (June, 2013)
Right-Sizing Stem-Rust Research (April, 2013)
Measuring the Global Occurrence and Probabilistic Consequences of Wheat Stem Rust (April, 2013)
Public Food and Agricultural Research in the United States: The Rise and Decline of Public Investments, and Policies for Renewal (April, 2013)
A Long-Run View of South African Agricultural Production and Productivity (October, 2012)
Quantifying Farmer Adoption Intensity for Weed Resistance Management Practices and Its Determinants (August, 2012)
Global and US Trends in Agricultural R&D in a Global Food Security Setting (February, 2012)
Agricultural Production, Productivity and R&D over the Past Half Century: An Emerging New World Order (January, 2012)
Agricultural Production, Productivity and R&D over the Past Half Century: An Emerging New World Order (January, 2012)
South African Agricultural Productivity and Investment Patterns (January, 2012)
A Sustainability Challenge: Food Security for All: Report of Two Workshops (January, 2012)
What Is the Irrigation Potential for Africa? A Combined Biophysical and Socioeconomic Approach (December, 2011)
The Economic Returns to U.S. Public Agricultural Research (November, 2011)
Agricultural Technologies to Feed Future Generations: Reasons to Revitalise (November, 2011)
Climate Risk Management Through Sustainable Land Management in Sub-Saharan Africa (September, 2011)
Groundnut Rainfed High Inputs Potential Yield (kg/ha) (GAEZ) (August, 2011)
Groundnut Rainfed High Inputs Potential Yield (kg/ha) (GAEZ) (August, 2011)
Seeds of Change: Corn Seed Mixtures for Resistance Management and Integrated Pest Management (April, 2011)

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Farming entails a great deal of choices and uncertainties. From season to season, weather varies, price fluctuates, soil degrades, pest damages, and climate changes. Farmers everywhere must cope with these uncertainties. Throughout the history of agriculture, many options have been developed to help manage these risks, increase yields, increase efficiency, and, more recently, promote the sustainability of the overall system.

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