Returns to Policy-Oriented Agricultural Research: The Case of Barley Fertilization in Syria

Mohamed A.M. Ahmed, Kamel Shideed and Ahmed Mazid

World Development, 2010, vol. 38, issue 10, 1462-1472

Abstract: Summary In 1984, ICARDA and its Syrian partners initiated farming systems research that led to a change in national fertilizer allocation policy. Evidence is assessed on the policy influence of the fertilizer-response research and on the impact of switching to a more inclusive policy that relaxed the government's probation of fertilizer allocation to barley. Interviews with key informants make a persuasive case for attribution; estimates from economic surplus models are consistent with a high rate of return on investment in the policy-oriented research. This case study provides a contribution to the limited empirical literature on returns to research under policy distortions.

Keywords: West Asia; Syria; policy-oriented research; policy influence; economic surplus; rate of return (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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