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Institutional Reform of Agricultural Research and Extension in Latin America and the Caribbean

After a period of strong support in the 1960s and 1970s, public funding for research and extension activities in LAC began to wane in the 1980s and 1990s. The strained economic context for many countries required the search for more cost-effective...

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Main Authors: Roseboom, Johannes, McMahon, Matthew, Ekanayake, Indira, John-Abraham, Indu
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
ACTIVE PARTNERS
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICES
AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SYSTEMS
AGRICULTURAL SECTOR
AGRICULTURE
BIDDING
BIOTECHNOLOGY
CIVIC PARTICIPATION
COLLABORATION
COMMUNITIES
DECENTRALIZATION
DECISION-MAKING
DIRECT BENEFICIARIES
DISCUSSIONS
DIVERSIFICATION
DRAMATIC CHANGES
EXPERIMENTATION
EXTENSION
FARMER
FARMER ASSOCIATIONS
FARMER ORGANIZATIONS
FARMERS
FEED
GLOBALIZATION
HUMAN RESOURCES
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
INNOVATIONS
INSIGHTS
INTEGRATION
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
KNOWLEDGE DIFFUSION
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT
LEARNING
LIVELIHOODS
NGOS
OUTSOURCING
PARTICIPATION OF BENEFICIARIES
POOR FARMERS
PRIVATE SECTOR
PROCESS OF INNOVATION
PRODUCER ORGANIZATIONS
PRODUCTIVITY
PROGRAMS
PUBLIC GOOD
R&D
RURAL DEVELOPMENT
RURAL LIVELIHOODS
RURAL POOR
TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
THINKING
UNIVERSITIES
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/05/7014895/institutional-reform-agricultural-research-extension-latin-america-caribbean
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10312

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/05/7014895/institutional-reform-agricultural-research-extension-latin-america-caribbean
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10312

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