The CGIAR needs a revolution

J McIntire, A Dobermann - Global Food Security, 2023 - Elsevier
The CGIAR is a unique scientific organization that seeks to improve food security for low-
income people. It should be leading efforts to generate sustainable productivity gains in …

The economics of agricultural innovation

JM Alston, PG Pardey - Handbook of agricultural economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Throughout history and in every part of the world, innovation in agriculture has played
crucial roles in economic development by increasing farm productivity, enhancing the …

Research investment implications of shifts in the global geography of wheat stripe rust

JM Beddow, PG Pardey, Y Chai, TM Hurley, DJ Kriticos… - Nature Plants, 2015 - nature.com
Breeding new crop varieties with resistance to the biotic stresses that undermine crop yields
is tantamount to increasing the amount and quality of biological capital in agriculture …

[KNJIGA][B] Agricultural development and economic transformation: promoting growth with poverty reduction

JW Mellor - 2017 - Springer
My intention is to explain how rapid agricultural growth accelerates the economic
transformation to a modern economy and most important why it is the prime instrument for …

Agricultural R&D is on the move

PG Pardey, C Chan-Kang, SP Dehmer, JM Beddow - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
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R&D capital, R&D spillovers, and productivity growth in world agriculture

K Fuglie - Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing the world's food supply has depended heavily on increasing agricultural
productivity, which in turn depends on investments in research and development (R&D) …

R&D spending, knowledge capital, and agricultural productivity growth: A Bayesian approach

ULC Baldos, FG Viens, TW Hertel… - American Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In this article, we employ Bayesian hierarchical modeling to better capture and communicate
the uncertainties surrounding the transformation of US public agricultural research and …

Multi-peril pathogen risks to global wheat production: A probabilistic loss and investment assessment

Y Chai, S Senay, D Horvath, P Pardey - Frontiers in plant science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Crop diseases cause significant food and economic losses. We examined the joint,
probabilistic, long-term, bio-economic impact of five major fungal pathogens of wheat on …

Payoffs to a half century of CGIAR research

JM Alston, PG Pardey, X Rao - American Journal of Agricultural …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The CGIAR is a unique and highly successful institutional arrangement for funding and
conducting multilateral agricultural R&D. Established in 1971, the CGIAR has spent about …

[HTML][HTML] Returns to food and agricultural R&D investments in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1975–2014

PG Pardey, RS Andrade, TM Hurley, X Rao… - Food policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Research-enabled growth in agricultural productivity is pivotal to sub-Saharan Africa's
overall economic growth prospects. Yet, investments in research and development (R&D) …