EVALUATING AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND PRODUCTIVITY IN AN ERA OF RESOURCE SCARCITY

Proceedings of a Symposium Sponsored by NC-208, "Impact Analysis and Decision Strategies for Agricultural Research" held at Orlando, Florida, March 4, 1993. Table of Contents: The Federal Context for Funding Agricultural Research, by Daryl Chubin Agricultural Research Structures in a Changing World, by Brian Wright and David Zilberman Priority Setting in a State Agricultural Experiment Station: Shifting Paradigms, by Bill R. Baumgardt Structure, Management and Funding of Agricultural Research in the United States: Current Directions and Likely Impact, by Wallace Huffman and Richard Just Impact of Changing Intellectual Property Rights on U.S. Plant Breeding R&D, by Carl E. Pray, Mary Knudson and Leonard Masse A New Look at State-Level Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture, by Philip G. Pardey, Barbara J. Craig and Klaus Deininger Measuring Agricultural Productivity in U.S. Agriculture, by V. Eldon Ball