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Technology Innovation Improvement for the World Food System
Technology Innovation Improvement for the World Food System
Pages 37-47
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Most developing countries have established agricultural research programs, often inadequately supported and staffed and without adequate modern facilities. Such nations could be helped in developing their capacity for technology innovation and management by collaboration with experienced agricultural scientists from other countries.
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Additional programs concentrate on labor intensive innovative farming systems and related technologies adapted to small farms and applicable to various conditions of soil, water supply, and climate. Most of the centers are developing satellite research programs and outreach activities that are making new seeds and other technologies available on every continent and in many developing countries.
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The major consideration for an effective U.S. role in technology innovation management systems for improving world food production and supply is a program flexibility that can adapt to these changing needs of the recipient countries, each of which must build its own capacity for technology innovation management.
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A profile of manpower expectations must be drawn as a basis for rational investment in human resource development. The availability of manpower and its capabilities for aiding agriculturally developing nations needs particularly critical evaluation.
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The USAID should take the initiative to improve the capacity of agriculturally developing nations in technology innovation. Guidelines are needed to make technological innovation more efficient and effective.
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Once the basic elements are identified -- from development of location-specific technologies to their diffusion throughout the farm sector -- each element can be addressed individually from a research standpoint, and the management problem of identifying and removing limiting factors can be clarified. Through the efforts of national and international research institutions in both agriculturally developed and less developed countries, an effective beginning has been made on the problem of technology innovation.
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In total, the current organization is not geared to handle the technology innovation management requirements with which it must cope now and in the future. Whatever mechanism is devised for improving coordination among the various components of the technology innovation management system, it must at least meet the criteria of being a permissive mechanism rather than a restrictive, administrative one.
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international technical assistance program that could be developed to encompass the capabilities of various federal agencies and the private sector as well as the educational institutions. Continuing support should be provided for international agricultural research centers as now coordinated by the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research.
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National adaptive research and associated extension programs need guidance and strengthening to enable individual countries to make effective use of information coming from international agricultural research/technology transfer networks. The components of this network include developed countries' research institutions, international centers and related regional institutions or programs, and the national research systems of the developing countries.
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In the same way, questionable reliability, timeliness, usefulness, and accuracy of information provided by governments seriously impede the decision-making process, in both analysis and planning. The USDA should make available assistance for manpower training, methodologies, and for field assistance to help countries develop improved systems for gathering reliable data on agricultural production, food distribution, and nutritional status of the people.
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June 1-4. Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (1974)
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