Agroecological aspects of evaluating agricultural R&D |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Agronomy and Plant Breeding, Faculty of Agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran;2. Department of Biotechnology, Institute of Science and High Technology and Environmental Science, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran;1. Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA;2. Weyerhaeuser Company, Columbus, MS, USA;1. Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0366, United States;2. School of Statistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455-0493, United States;3. Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, 61820-6371, United States;4. National Center for Supercomputing Applications, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 61801-2311, United States;5. Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 30602-5029, United States |
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| Abstract: | In this paper we describe how biophysical data can be used, in conjunction with agroecological concepts and multimarket economic models, to systematically evaluate the effects of agricultural R&D in ways that inform research priority setting and resource-allocation decisions. Agroecological zones can be devised to help estimate the varying, site-specific responses to new agricultural technologies and to evaluate the potential for research to spill over from one agroecological zone to another. The application of agroecological zonation procedures in an international, agricultural-research context is given special attention, and we propose tailoring the zones to the R&D being evaluated. |
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