Author: Publisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Developing Multinational Priority Setting For Agricultural Research In LAC: Issues, Experiences and Prospects
Author: Publisher: IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Developing Multinational Priority Setting for Agricultural Research in LAC
Author: Iica - Annual Report Inter-american Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
Author: Exploring Strategic Priorities for Regional Agricultural R&D Investments in East and Central Africa
Author: Michael JohnsonPublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Strategic Approaches to Science and Technology in Development
Author: Michael Frederick CrawfordPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Watson, Crawford, and Farley examine the ways in which science and technology (S & T) support poverty alleviation and economic development and how these themes have been given emphasis or short shrift in various areas of the World Bank's work. Central to their thesis is the now well-established argument that development will increasingly depend on a country's ability to understand, interpret, select, adapt, use, transmit, diffuse, produce, and commercialize scientific and technological knowledge in ways appropriate to its culture, aspirations, and level of development. The authors go beyond this tenet, analyzing the importance of S & T for development within specific sectors. They present policy options for enhancing the effectiveness of S & T systems in developing countries, review previous experience of the World Bank and other donors in supporting S & T, and suggest changes that the World Bank and its partners can adopt to increase the impact of the work currently undertaken in S & T. The authors' main messages are: * S & T has always been important for development, but the unprecedented pace of advancement of scientific knowledge is rapidly creating new opportunities for and threats to development. * Most developing countries are largely unprepared to deal with the changes that S & T advancement will bring. * The World Bank's numerous actions in various domains of S & T could be more effective in producing the needed capacity improvements in client countries. * The World Bank could have a greater impact if it paid increased attention to S & T in education, health, rural development, private sector development, and the environment. The strategy emphasizes four S & T policy areas: education and human resources development, the private sector, the public sector, and information communications technologies. The paper--a joint product of the Education Team, Human Development Network, and the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Vice Presidency--is part of a larger effort in the Bank to engage client countries in an active science and technology dialogue while increasing awareness of the centrality of these issues to the Bank's work.
Cities and Their Vital Systems
Author: Advisory Committee on Technology and SocietyPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309037860
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
Cities and Their Vital Systems asks basic questions about the longevity, utility, and nature of urban infrastructures; analyzes how they grow, interact, and change; and asks how, when, and at what cost they should be replaced. Among the topics discussed are problems arising from increasing air travel and airport congestion; the adequacy of water supplies and waste treatment; the impact of new technologies on construction; urban real estate values; and the field of "telematics," the combination of computers and telecommunications that makes money machines and national newspapers possible.
Managing Agricultural Research for Fragile Environments
Author: John FarringtonPublisher: Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This book draws on detailed case studies of successful and institutionally innovative approaches to research, dissemination and feedback in two contrasting environments: the hills of Nepal and the lowlands of Bolivia. The case studies are set against a broader overview of agricultural research structure in the two countries
Priorities for agricultural research in LAC
Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9789290393504
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
International Meeting of FORAGRO: institutional innovations for agriculture with knowledge in the Americas in the 21s century: summary
Author: Publisher: IICA
ISBN: 9292481398
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Global Agenda for Livestock Research
Author: P. GardinerPublisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN: 9291460028
Category : Livestock
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
