Persistence Pays - U.S. Agricultural Productivity Growth and the Benefits from Public R&D Spending (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)

gricultural science policy in the United States has profoundly affected the growth and development of agriculture worldwide, not just in the A United States. Over the past 150 years, and especially over the second th half of the 20 Century, public investments in agricultural R&D in the United States grew faster than the value of agricultural production. Public spending on agricultural science grew similarly in other more-developed countries, and c- lectively these efforts, along with private spending, spurred agricultural prod- tivity growth in rich and poor nations alike. The value of this investment is seldom fully appreciated. The resulting p- ductivity improvements have released labor and other resources for alternative uses-in 1900, 29. 2 million Americans (39 percent of the population) were - rectly engaged in farming compared with just 2. 9 million (1. 1 percent) today- while making food and fiber more abundant and cheaper. The benefits are not confined to Americans. U. S. agricultural science has contributed with others to growth in agricultural productivity in many other countries as well as the Un- ed States. The world's population more than doubled from around 3 billion in 1961 to 6. 54 billion in 2006 (U. S. Census Bureau 2009). Over the same period, production of important grain crops (including maize, wheat and rice) almost trebled, such that global per capita grain production was 18 percent higher in 2006.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Natural Resource Management and Policy, 34
Release date:	December 2009
First published:	2010
Authors:	Julian M. Alston • Matthew A. Andersen • Jennifer S. James • Philip G. Pardey
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 36mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	504
Edition:	2010 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4419-0657-1
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Research & development management
LSN:	1-4419-0657-6
Barcode:	9781441906571

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