A Strategic Approach to Agricultural Research Program Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa

Duncan H. Boughton (), Eric Winthrop Crawford (), Julie Howard, James Oehmke, James Shaffer and John M. Staatz

No 8, International Development Policy Syntheses from Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University

Abstract: The challenge is how to design agricultural research as a strategic input to promote broad-based economic growth, structural transformation, and food security in the increasingly market-driven, but fragile, economies of Africa. A process for designing agricultural research will have three distinctive characteristics: 1) a vision that recognizes the link between research and agricultural transformation, including increased specialization and productivity in farming through the acquisition of science-based inputs from the rest of the economy in exchange for farm products. This implies the need for 2) a strategy that ensures consistency and complementarity between technological change and improvements in institutions and policies necessary to foster greater integration and exchange within the economy, and for 3) tactics, the development of feasible action plans, that bring together research clients and stakeholders.

Keywords: food security; food policy; agricultural research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 1996
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Working Paper: A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH PROGRAM PLANNING IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA (1996)
Working Paper: A Strategic Approach to Agricultural Research Program Planning in Sub-Saharan Africa (1995)
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