Agricultural R&D - Consequences of the Shifting Balance from Public to Private
01/06/2003
Dear Colleagues,
I invite your participation in the discussion forum "Agricultural Research and Development: Consequences of the Shifting Balance from Public to Private" to be held on the global public goods Network (http://www.gpgNet.net) platform from 26 May to 9 June 2003.
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Considering the shift towards an increasing importance of private financing of agricultural R&D, the question arises: "Who will undertake R&D that addresses the challenges of the poor in developing countries?" Since the poor, along with other vulnerabilities, have low incomes, they lack the purchasing power to pull private R&D initiatives towards their problems and concerns. These facts are well known. And yet, they do happen; and they do persist.
So, what could be done to change the current incentive structures of governments in developing countries and their international development partners to reconsider the matter and augment support-- public and private-- for agricultural R&D on problems of the poor?
The complete background paper to the discussion would shortly be available at http://www.gpgnet.net/discussion.php
Please join us for this debate and share with us -and the global public- your observations on this topic.
Yours sincerely,
Vikas Nath
gpgNet.net Forum Manager
Office of Development Studies
United Nations Development Programme
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