Research and research policy for the poor
- Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Main Title: The State of Food and Agriculture 2003-2004 , pp 87-98
- Publication Date: March 2004
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.18356/8f17b3c3-en
- Language: English
Agricultural biotechnology holds enormous promise for addressing a range of technical challenges facing poor farmers in poor countries (Chapter 2). We know from the Green Revolution that agricultural research can stimulate sustainable economic growth in developing countries, but the paradigm for research and technology delivery that made the Green Revolution possible has broken down (Chapter 3). That system was explicitly designed to promote the development and international transfer of productivity-enhancing technologies to farmers in poor countries as free public goods. Global agricultural biotechnology research, by contrast, is dominated by the private sector, which focuses on crops and traits of importance for commercial farmers in large profitable markets.
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