Public investment in agri-food system innovation for sustainable development
Research is essential for improvement of agricultural productivity, resource use and resilience, and for food systems transformation more broadly. This article analyzes the drivers of past agricultural productivity growth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and argues that productivity is no...
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2023
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| author | Stads, Gert-Jan Nin-Pratt, Alejandro Wiebe, Keith D. Sulser, Timothy B. Benfica, Rui |
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| description | Research is essential for improvement of agricultural productivity, resource use and resilience, and for food systems transformation more broadly. This article analyzes the drivers of past agricultural productivity growth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and argues that productivity is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of a global population of 10 billion by 2050. A sustainable transformation of agri-food systems in LMICs will need greater and faster technical change. Higher investment in agri-food R&D is therefore needed to accelerate productivity growth and address the social, economic, nutritional and environmental challenges facing LMICs. Greater and better-targeted investment in sustainable technologies and climate change mitigation and adaptation will be particularly important to reducing the climate change impacts on agriculture and food security in the coming decades. However, LMICs with small research systems and limited innovation capacity lack the scale and resources to effectively tackle the challenges ahead. Better coordination and a clear articulation of roles and responsibilities among national, subregional, regional and global R&D actors (both from the public and private sectors) are essential to ensuring that scarce financial, human, and infrastructure resources are optimized, duplications minimized, and synergies and complementarities enhanced. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1299392025-10-26T13:01:45Z Public investment in agri-food system innovation for sustainable development Stads, Gert-Jan Nin-Pratt, Alejandro Wiebe, Keith D. Sulser, Timothy B. Benfica, Rui agriculture agricultural productivity agrifood sector climate change mitigation food security infrastructure nutrition productivity resilience Research is essential for improvement of agricultural productivity, resource use and resilience, and for food systems transformation more broadly. This article analyzes the drivers of past agricultural productivity growth in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and argues that productivity is not growing fast enough to meet the needs of a global population of 10 billion by 2050. A sustainable transformation of agri-food systems in LMICs will need greater and faster technical change. Higher investment in agri-food R&D is therefore needed to accelerate productivity growth and address the social, economic, nutritional and environmental challenges facing LMICs. Greater and better-targeted investment in sustainable technologies and climate change mitigation and adaptation will be particularly important to reducing the climate change impacts on agriculture and food security in the coming decades. However, LMICs with small research systems and limited innovation capacity lack the scale and resources to effectively tackle the challenges ahead. Better coordination and a clear articulation of roles and responsibilities among national, subregional, regional and global R&D actors (both from the public and private sectors) are essential to ensuring that scarce financial, human, and infrastructure resources are optimized, duplications minimized, and synergies and complementarities enhanced. 2023 2023-04-10T20:07:35Z 2023-04-10T20:07:35Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/129939 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/150391 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294165 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148186 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.12.006 https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.965767 https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1051356 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896298477 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114761 Open Access Higher Education Press Stads, Gert-Jan; Nin-Pratt, Alejandro; Wiebe, Keith D.; Sulser, Timothy B.; and Benfica, Rui. 2023. Public investment in agri-food system innovation for sustainable development. Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering 10(1): 123-134 https://doi.org/10.15302/J-FASE-2023484 |
| spellingShingle | agriculture agricultural productivity agrifood sector climate change mitigation food security infrastructure nutrition productivity resilience Stads, Gert-Jan Nin-Pratt, Alejandro Wiebe, Keith D. Sulser, Timothy B. Benfica, Rui Public investment in agri-food system innovation for sustainable development |
| title | Public investment in agri-food system innovation for sustainable development |
| title_full | Public investment in agri-food system innovation for sustainable development |
| title_fullStr | Public investment in agri-food system innovation for sustainable development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Public investment in agri-food system innovation for sustainable development |
| title_short | Public investment in agri-food system innovation for sustainable development |
| title_sort | public investment in agri food system innovation for sustainable development |
| topic | agriculture agricultural productivity agrifood sector climate change mitigation food security infrastructure nutrition productivity resilience |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/129939 |
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