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| Name | Targeting agricultural research and development for poverty reduction: General principles and... |
| Description | Bigman, D. and M.E. Loevinsohn, 2003. Targeting agricultural research and development for poverty reduction: General principles and an illustration for Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Mathur, S.; Pachico, D. Agricultural research and poverty reduction: Some issues and evidence. Economics and Impact Series 2. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), Cali, Colombia. p. 131-152.In 1997, the CGIAR System adopted new policy guidelines that gave the highest priority to the achieving poverty alleviation through resource conservation and management, increasing the productivity of commodity production systems, improving the policy environment, and strengthening national research capacity. 14 The implementation of these guidelines requires a coherent methodology that will provide a comprehensive impact assessment of agricultural R&D programs in terms of their effect on poverty. Most of the analytical work in the past two years on the development of the necessary methodology focused on poverty mapping. The analytical model developed in this paper suggests, however, that poverty mapping is only one component of the required methodology. An equally important component is a detailed mapping of the incidence of the benefits from the R&D program across geographical areas and farming systems. Another necessary component is a method of estimating the incidence of poverty in the target areas for agricultural R&D programs. The paper also emphasizes that, even when the goal of poverty reduction is given the highest priority, agricultural R&D program may not always be the most effective policy instrument to achieve this goal. In some countries, the underlying socioeconomic and geographic conditions in the areas where the poor concentrate, or the characteristics of the new technology that was developed in the program, may slow down the rate of adoption of this technology and thereby reduce the impact of agricultural R&D program on the poor. In many developing countries, the alternative distributive policy instruments are either non-available or highly ineffective, and targeted agricultural R&D programs can play a significant role in alleviating poverty and reducing income inequalities. |
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