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Science Under Scarcity - Principles and Practice for Agricultural Research and Priority Setting (Paperback)
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Science Under Scarcity - Principles and Practice for Agricultural Research and Priority Setting (Paperback)
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Resources for agricultural science are scarce across the world. Yet
even as resources are shrinking, agricultural science has expanded
its inquiry into many new areas - such as environmental
preservation, food quality, and rural development - without
forsaking its more traditional concerns. In a time of tight
government budgets, research administrators are faced with the need
to provide strong evidence that costs are justified by benefits.
"Science under Scarcity" is an invaluable guide to the theory and
methods necessary for evaluating research in agriculture and for
setting priorities for resource allocation. Although economists
have made significant progress in developing more sophisticated
methods for research evaluation and priority setting, many research
analysts and administrators do not have a working knowledge of
those practices. Without the assistance of formal economic analysis
it is particularly difficult to assess the social value of new
technologies or to make informed judgements about the trade-offs
that are involved in allocation decisions. Addressing that
knowledge gap, this book reviews, synthesizes, and extends such
methods as economic surplus analysis, econometric techniques,
mathematical programming procedures, and scoring models. It
discusses these practices in the context of scientific policy,
describes their conceptual foundations, and explains how to do
them.Originally published in 1995 in hardcover by Cornell
University Press, it is now reissued in paperback by CAB
INTERNATIONAL.
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