Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: the case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
It is widely recognized that increasing agricultural production to the levels needed to feed an expanding world population requires sharply increased public investment in research and development and widespread adoption of new technologies, but funding for national and international agricultural res...
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| author | Alene, A. Abdoulaye, Tahirou Rusike, Joseph Labarta, Ricardo Antonio Creamer, Bernardo Río Duque, Martha Lilia del Ceballos, H. Becerra López Lavelle, Luis Augusto |
| author_browse | Abdoulaye, Tahirou Alene, A. Becerra López Lavelle, Luis Augusto Ceballos, H. Creamer, Bernardo Labarta, Ricardo Antonio Rusike, Joseph Río Duque, Martha Lilia del |
| author_facet | Alene, A. Abdoulaye, Tahirou Rusike, Joseph Labarta, Ricardo Antonio Creamer, Bernardo Río Duque, Martha Lilia del Ceballos, H. Becerra López Lavelle, Luis Augusto |
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| description | It is widely recognized that increasing agricultural production to the levels needed to feed an expanding world population requires sharply increased public investment in research and development and widespread adoption of new technologies, but funding for national and international agricultural research has rather declined in recent years. In this situation, priority setting has become increasingly important for allocating scarce research resources among competing needs to achieve greater impacts. Using partial equilibrium economic surplus models and poverty impact simulations, this paper assesses cassava research priorities in Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, and Asia based on the potential economic and poverty reduction impacts of alternative research and technology options. The results showed that efficient planting material production and distribution systems and sustainable crop and soil fertility management practices have the greatest expected economic and poverty reduction impacts in the three regions. Lack of clean planting materials is a major constraint to adoption and it is envisaged that efficient production and distribution systems for planting material can accelerate technology adoption by farmers. Similarly, sustainable crop and soil fertility management practices play a key role in closing the observed yield gaps, especially in Africa. The paper discusses the results of the priority assessment for key cassava research options and concludes with the implications for cassava research priorities. |
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| spelling | CGSpace965872025-11-12T05:56:51Z Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: the case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America Alene, A. Abdoulaye, Tahirou Rusike, Joseph Labarta, Ricardo Antonio Creamer, Bernardo Río Duque, Martha Lilia del Ceballos, H. Becerra López Lavelle, Luis Augusto cassava agricultural production poverty technology manihot esculenta production soil fertility It is widely recognized that increasing agricultural production to the levels needed to feed an expanding world population requires sharply increased public investment in research and development and widespread adoption of new technologies, but funding for national and international agricultural research has rather declined in recent years. In this situation, priority setting has become increasingly important for allocating scarce research resources among competing needs to achieve greater impacts. Using partial equilibrium economic surplus models and poverty impact simulations, this paper assesses cassava research priorities in Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, and Asia based on the potential economic and poverty reduction impacts of alternative research and technology options. The results showed that efficient planting material production and distribution systems and sustainable crop and soil fertility management practices have the greatest expected economic and poverty reduction impacts in the three regions. Lack of clean planting materials is a major constraint to adoption and it is envisaged that efficient production and distribution systems for planting material can accelerate technology adoption by farmers. Similarly, sustainable crop and soil fertility management practices play a key role in closing the observed yield gaps, especially in Africa. The paper discusses the results of the priority assessment for key cassava research options and concludes with the implications for cassava research priorities. 2018-08-08 2018-08-17T10:37:44Z 2018-08-17T10:37:44Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/96587 en Open Access application/pdf Public Library of Science Alene, A. D., Abdoulaye, T., Rusike, J., Labarta, R., Creamer, B., del Río, M., Ceballos, H., & Becerra, L. A. (2018). Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: The case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. PLOS ONE, 13(8), e0201803. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201803 |
| spellingShingle | cassava agricultural production poverty technology manihot esculenta production soil fertility Alene, A. Abdoulaye, Tahirou Rusike, Joseph Labarta, Ricardo Antonio Creamer, Bernardo Río Duque, Martha Lilia del Ceballos, H. Becerra López Lavelle, Luis Augusto Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: the case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America |
| title | Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: the case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America |
| title_full | Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: the case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America |
| title_fullStr | Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: the case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America |
| title_full_unstemmed | Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: the case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America |
| title_short | Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: the case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America |
| title_sort | identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts the case of cassava in africa asia and latin america |
| topic | cassava agricultural production poverty technology manihot esculenta production soil fertility |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/96587 |
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