325-9 Emerging Public and Private Agriculture R&D Trends In a Global Food Security Context.



Wednesday, October 19, 2011: 11:10 AM
Henry Gonzalez Convention Center, Ballroom C-2, Ballroom Level

Phil Pardey, Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Sustaining and, most likely, increasing the rate of investment in agricultural R&D worldwide will be crucial to substainably meeting the future growth in demand for agricultural output. However, there are substanatial lags between investing in R&D and realizing a return on these investments, although the R&D effects are typically long lasting.  To place the agricultural R&D spending-productivity growth relationship in a proper, long-run context, new evidence on investments in public and private agricultural R&D in the OECD countries over the past 40 years will be presented and discussed.  Global agricultural R&D spending trends will also be presented along with counterpart, long-term trends in global agricultural production and productivity performance. The overarching theme is to put agricultural R&D in the context of reemerging global food security concerns and provide new perspectives on the changing public and private sector research roles. 
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