Introduction of private enterprises to deliver agricultural advisory services is seen as a strategy to increase the coverage and effectiveness of the pluralistic extension system in developing countries. The Indian national program of agriclinics...
Rising demands for quality and safety measures in high-value agriculture and livestock markets have necessitated the creation of increasingly complex supply chains to manage the flow of goods and information among channel actors. Public-private...
Despite a wide range of reform initiatives in agricultural extension in India in the past decades, the coverage of, access to, and quality of information provided to marginalized and poor farmers is uneven. This paper aims to ascertain why farmers...
"In July 2008, the government of Ghana instituted a country-wide subsidy on 50Kg bags of four types of fertilizer in an effort to mitigate the effect of rising energy and food prices. Farmers received the subsidy in the form of fertilizer- and...
Hartwich, Frank; Tola, Jaime; Engler, Alejandra; González, Carolina; Ghezan, Graciela; Vázquez-Alvarado, Jorge M. P.; Silva, José Antonio; Espinoza, José de Jesús; Gottret, Mari´a Vero´nica
2008
Public-private partnerships are a new way of carrying out research and development (R&D) in Latin America's agricultural sector. These partnerships spur innovation for agricultural development and have various advantages over other institutional...
Spielman, David J.; Hartwich, Frank; von Grebmer, Klaus
2007
Public-private partnerships (PPPs) in agricultural research and development are increasingly viewed as an effective means of conducting advanced research, developing new technologies, and deploying new products for the benefit of small-scale,...
Many countries have recognized the need to revive agricultural advisory or extension services (the terms are used interchangeably here) as a means of using agriculture as an engine of pro-poor growth; reaching marginalized, poor, and female...
Hartwich, Frank; Tola, Jaime; Engler, Alejandra; González, Carolina; Ghezan, Graciela; Vázquez-Alvarado, Jorge M. P.; Silva, José Antonio; Espinoza, José de Jesús; Gottret, Mari´a Vero´nica
2007
Las alianzas público-privadas constituyen una nueva forma de realizar investigaciones y representan el desarrollo en el sector agrícola/agroindustrial de América Latina. Existen suficientes ejemplos que comprueban que éstas se han convertido en...
Narrod, Clare A.; Roy, Devesh; Okello, Julius; Avendaño Ruiz, Belem D.; Rich, Karl M.
2007
Many developing countries have moved into the production of non-traditional agricultural products to diversify their exports and increase foreign currency earnings. Accessing developed country markets and urban domestic markets requires meeting the...
"The International Service for National Agricultural Research¾on its own from 2002 until 2003, and as a division of the International Food Policy Research Institute thereafter has studied 124 public–private partnerships in agriculture in nine...
