Tag Archives: investment

Assessing returns to research investments in rice varietal development: Evidence from the Philippines and Bangladesh

Providing a relative magnitude of returns to investments is important for donors so that they can see whether payoffs still exist to fund this type of...

Ups and downs: private-sector investment in rice research

Rice is, arguably, the world’s most important food crop. In spite of this prominence, the private sector for many years concentrated only on developing rice crop protection products such as herbicides and insecticides. There was little investment in improving rice varieties, and low participation in the crop seed  business. In the mid-1990s, however, several agricultural...

Food security as economic stimulus

(Photo: IRRI) In the years following World War II, there was growing concern about the food problem in Asia. The population was growing at close to 3%...

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