This paper identifies market failures that limit agricultural R&D for Africa and other resource-poor environments, and proposes a way to complement existing institutions with cash prizes for the dissemination of successful new technologies adopted by low-income farmers.
Purdue Agriculture
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Purdue University’s College of Agriculture - or Purdue Agriculture - is one of the world’s leading colleges of agricultural, food, life, and natural resource sciences. Since 1920, the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University has been working to acquire and transmit new economic knowledge. Purdue’s Agricultural Economics Department covers a wide array of issues from development, trade, macroeconomics policy implications, agribusiness, production and consumption all the way to environmental and resource issues.
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2005
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