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Searching with a thematic focus on Agriculture and food, Agricultural biodiversity and natural resource management, Agricultural policy, Research to policy

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  Enhancing the impact of agricultural research: an impact pathway perspective

  2020 Vision for Food, Agriculture and the Environment, International Food Policy Research Institute, 2004

  Assessing the impact of agricultural research often implies proving that some kind of positive impact was achieved as a result of a successful research operation.
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  Underinvestment in agricultural research and development revisited

  International Service for National Agricultural Research, 2003

  This paper looks at the factors influencing the relatively low public agricultural research and development (R&D) investment in developing countries, and suggests ways in which more investment can be achieved.The paper presents a stylized model of the economic selection of agricultural R&D projects.
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  Extension, poverty and vulnerability: the scope for policy reform. Final Report of a study for the Neuchatel Initiative

  Overseas Development Institute, 2002

  This paper reviews pro-poor agricultural extension policies, building on an earlier inception report of the same study. Based on a livelihoods approach, the authors argue that policies towards agriculture, rural development and extension have focused exclusively on increased productivity of land, as opposed to enhancing labour productivity, employment creation and vulnerability reduction.
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  Integrating participatory research methods in a public agricultural research organisation: a partially successful experience in Morocco

  Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2001

  Reports on a project of institutional capacity development for participatory research, undertaken by the INRA in Morocco.
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  Global science, global policy: local to global policy processes for soils management in Africa

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2000

  The creation and selling of ideas of global environmental crisis has been a core characteristic of the post-Rio decade. Global science and global policymaking processes are central to these crises. However, framings of global environmental problems – the knowledge claims and interests that underpin them, and the plans that flow from them – are often accepted without critical examination.