Authors:
Gert-Jan Stads, Alejandro Nin Pratt, Norah Omot, and Nguyen Thi Pham
Year:
2020
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions
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Southeast Asia made considerable progress in building and strengthening its agricultural R&D capacity during 2000–2017. All of the region’s countries reported higher numbers of agricultural researchers, improvements in their average qualification levels, and higher shares of women participating in agricultural R&D. In contrast, regional agricultural research spending remained stagnant, despite considerable growth in agricultural output over time.
Authors:
Gert-Jan Stads
Year:
2019
Publisher
SAARC Agriculture Centre (SAC), Dhaka, Bangladesh and Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions (APAARI), Bangkok, Thailand
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By Gert-Jan Stads
Year:
2016
Publisher
Asia Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions
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Overall, since the turn of the millennium Asia has recorded rapid growth in its levels of agricultural research spending (excluding the private for-profit sector). Most of the growth in regional spending was driven by just one country: China. In 2013, China invested $9.4 billion purchasing power parity or PPP dollars (in 2011 prices) in agricultural R&D. Spending in India and Indonesia has also increased substantially since the turn of the millennium. These countries rank second and third, spending $3.4 and $1.4 billion PPP dollars in 2014, respectively.
Authors:
Kathleen Flaherty, Gert-Jan Stads, and Attaluri Srinivasacharyulu
Year:
2013
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC; Asia–Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions, Bangkok, Thailand
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New quantitative evidence presented in this report demonstrates that total public agricultural R&D spending in Asia–Pacific increased by 50 percent, from $8.2 billion in 1996 to $12.3 billion in 2008 (in 2005 PPP prices). Most of this growth was driven by the region’s low- and middle-income countries, whereas growth in the region’s high-income countries stagnated. In fact, growth in public agricultural R&D spending in the region’s low- and middle-income countries has outpaced growth in all other developing regions around the world since the 1980s.
Authors:
Stads, Gert-Jan; Rahija, Michael
Year:
2012
Publisher
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
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New quantitative evidence presented in this report demonstrates that total public agricultural R&D spending in South Asia more than doubled between 1996 and 2009, while the number of agricultural researchers decreased by 6 percent. These trends were largely driven by India, which has the highest investment levels and strongest human resource capacity in agricultural research South Asia by far (both in terms of size and qualification levels), as well as the highest agricultural research spending intensity at 0.4 percent of AgGDP.