Institutional change and effective financing of agricultural research in Latin America

This paper reviews recent institutional changes and innovative mechanisms for funding of agricultural research in Latin America, including commercialization of research results through joint public-private sector ventures, competitive funds, research foundations, farmer-managed levies on agricultura...

• Main Author: Echeverría, Rubén G
• Corporate Author: Banco Mundial
• Other Authors: Trigo, Eduardo J, Byerlee, Derek
• Format: Book
• Published: Washington, D.C. World Bank 1996
• Series: World Bank technical paper no. 330
• Subjects: AGRICULTURA; INVESTIGACION AGRICOLA; FINANCIAMIENTO AGRICOLA; AMERICA LATINA

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Abstract
• Acronyms
• Summary
• Introduction
• The economic and institutional environment for NARS in the 1990s
• Public-and private- sector funding and execution of research: key concepts
• Alternative financing mechanisms
• Perspectives for the year 2000 and beyond
• References
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2