Impact Analyses and Decision Strategies For Agricultural Research (nc1034)

Measure trends, patterns, and sources of agricultural productivity growth. Estimate the net benefits of public and private investments in agricultural research and characterize the nature of those benefits to consumers, producers, and the environment. Analyze the adoption and diffusion of new agricultural technologies, assess agronomic, economic, and institutional barriers to adoption, and evaluate policies to overcome such barriers. Analyze decision strategies for funding, planning, managing, and evaluating agricultural research by public and private organizations. Analyze opportunities, risks, and net benefits from public-private sector linkages and technology transfer arrangements, including joint ventures, partnering, consortia, specialty research centers, start-up companies, and intellectual property arrangements. Examine possible future demands for technology as influenced by changes in population, climate and other environmental factors in addition to estimating the potential
benefits of prospective technological developments.