Improving the economic impact of farming systems research |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Laboratory of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Natural Products and Reactivity (LR11ES39), Team: Medicinal Chemistry and Natural Products, Faculty of Science of Monastir, University of Monastir, Avenue of Environment, 5019, Monastir, Tunisia;2. University of Sousse, Regional Centre of Research on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture, 57, ChottMariem, TN-4042, Sousse, Tunisia;3. Dipartimento di Farmacia, Università di Pisa, Via Bonanno 6, 56126, Pisa, Italy;4. Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca "Nutraceutica e Alimentazione per la Salute" Nutrafood, University of Pisa, Italy;1. Division of Agronomy, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India;2. ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Kanpur 208024, UP, India;3. ICAR-Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow 226002, UP, India;4. ICAR-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, Telangana 500059, India;5. Seed Production Unit, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110012, India;1. International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), PO Box 7777, Metro Manila, Philippines;2. Department of Plant and Soil Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA;1. Department of Farm Machinery Mechanics, Jahrom University, Jahrom 74137-66171, Iran;2. Aarhus University, Department of Agroecology, P.O. Box 50, DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark;3. Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran;1. Department of Speech and Hearing Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA;2. Department of Anthropology, Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA;3. GW Institute for Neuroscience, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA;4. GW Mind–Brain Institute, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA |
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| Abstract: | Some key practical issues in improving the economic impact of farming systems research are examined. Following some general background on how such research evolved, these issues are treated with respect to its three main stages.With the ex ante stage the needs of securing representativeness of the target area and of benchmarking the wider initial situation, including economic, social and agroclimatic features, are emphasized. With the ongoing stage, the importance of using suitable partial budgeting techniques is stressed. With the ex post stage, an assessment of wider technological and economic effects is called for, together with the identification of enabling factors and constraints in technological progress.The adjustment of the farming systems research process itself is finally considered, and the desirability of simplifying the process, further training junior field-level researchers and securing better interaction between workers at the various research levels, is highlighted. |
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