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Technology generation, adaptation, adoption and impact: towards a framework for understanding and in |
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International agricultural research, technology generation, transfer,
adoption and impact (IARTGTAI) constitute components of a system that
has evolved from a relatively simple structure in the 1960s to a
complex network in the late 1990s. Its functioning is of great
international interest. Despite major successes on the food front,
there are still 850 million people who earn less than a dollar a day
and go to bed hungry. Many studies of research, adoption and/or impact
in agriculture exist, but they tend to look at specific aspects of the
scientific and technology processes, such as priority setting or
research impact. The recent changes in the science and technology
processes and the resulting present structure have not been analyzed
sufficiently yet as organizational innovations intended to alleviate
market failures with a view to achieve specific social objectives. The
innovations form part of a larger global science and technology process
consisting of multiple actors, each with a different set of interests.
A broader evolutionary framework offers an opportunity for a clearer
understanding of the relationship between sources of technical change
in agriculture, and the spread of its adaptation and adoption by
producers and agroindustries.
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