Outlines theory and methods necessary for evaluating research in agriculture, for setting priorities for resource allocation, and assessing the social value of new technologies. Reviews methods such as economic surplus analysis, econometric techniques, mathematical programming procedures, and scoring models in the context of scientific policy, and explains how to apply the methods. Includes numerous b&amp;w charts and tables. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Science Under Scarcity: Principles and Practice for Agricultural Research Evaluation and Priority Setting (Food Systems and Agrarian Change)

Business & Money

Norton, George W.

Alston, Julian M.

Pardey, Philip G.

International Service for National Agricultural Research

Economics

Cornell Univ Pr

This volume examines current agricultural R&amp;D policy, evaluating it in the context of the 100-plus-year history of U.S. public-sector agricultural R&amp;D institutions and expenditures.

Making Science Pay: The Economics of Agricultural R&D Policy (Studies in Agricultural Policy)

Industries

AEI Press

This book uses an economic framework to examine the consequences of U.S. farm and food policies for obesity, its social costs, and the implications for government policy. Drawing on evidence from economics, public health, nutrition, and medicine, the authors evaluate past and potential future roles of policies such as farm subsidies, public agricultural R&amp;D, food assistance programs, taxes on particular foods (such as sodas) or nutrients (such as fat), food labeling laws, and advertising controls. The findings are mostly negative―it is generally not economic to use farm and food policies as obesity policy―but some food policies that combine incentives and information have potential to make a worthwhile impact. This book is accessible to advanced undergraduate and graduate students across the sciences and social sciences, as well as to decision-makers in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors. Winner of the Quality of Research Discovery Award from the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

The Effects of Farm and Food Policy on Obesity in the United States (Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy)

Okrent, Abigail M.

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Persistence Pays: U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Benefits from Public R&D Spending (Natural Resource Management and Policy, 34)

gricultural science policy in the United States has profoundly affected the growth and development of agriculture worldwide, not just in the A United States. Over the past 150 years, and especially over the second th half of the 20 Century, public investments in agricultural R&amp;D in the United States grew faster than the value of agricultural production. Public spending on agricultural science grew similarly in other more-developed countries, and c- lectively these efforts, along with private spending, spurred agricultural prod- tivity growth in rich and poor nations alike. The value of this investment is seldom fully appreciated. The resulting p- ductivity improvements have released labor and other resources for alternative uses―in 1900, 29. 2 million Americans (39 percent of the population) were - rectly engaged in farming compared with just 2. 9 million (1. 1 percent) today― while making food and fiber more abundant and cheaper. The benefits are not confined to Americans. U. S. agricultural science has contributed with others to growth in agricultural productivity in many other countries as well as the Un- ed States. The world’s population more than doubled from around 3 billion in 1961 to 6. 54 billion in 2006 (U. S. Census Bureau 2009). Over the same period, production of important grain crops (including maize, wheat and rice) almost trebled, such that global per capita grain production was 18 percent higher in 2006.

Andersen, Matthew A.

James, Jennifer S.

Science & Math

Springer

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