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Building agricultural research capacity: India's experience with the Rockefeller foundation and its |
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By drawing on the diaries of scientists in the Rockefeller Foundation
who assisted India in developing its research system in the 1950s and
60s, this paper outlines the process by which research reorganization
was achieved and the external factors which induced the reorganization.
The paper also discusses this reorganization in relation to the growth
in productivity of the Indian system and the role that the Foundation
played in that process. It stresses that external factors may
frequently be critical in developing coalitions of elite needed for
policy reform. It nevertheless contrasts the experience of the
Rockefeller Foundation in India with that of the donors currently
attempting to build the same systems in Africa. It stresses the
preconditions needed to achieve a successful donor recipient
collaboration in both donor and recipient countries including the need
for a long term perspective, political support at the highest levels of
the government, the quality and the length of service of the donor and
recipient scientists and a wholistic approach to organizational
improvement which simultaneously addresses the problems of human
capital, institutions, incentives and administrative procedures.
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