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Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic shift from public to private sector agricultural research in many developed countries. Developments in plant breeding and biotechnology, for example, have created profitable opportunities for private investment. However, new issues, such as intellectual property rights, have arisen as a consequence. This book discusses these and related issues.
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Presenting a series of 12 case studies, largely from the developing world, Byerlee (The World Bank) and Echeverria (Inter-American Development Bank) advance models of public-private partnerships for funding and organizing agricultural research. After a pair of essays presents an overview of the economic structure of agricultural research, the studies present examples of research funded by commodity levies paid by farmers, collaboration in joint ventures and other partnerships, and responses of public research organizations to privatization. Distributed by Oxford U. Press. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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