Pardey, Philip G.

Overview

Works:	185 works in 369 publications in 2 languages and 3,668 library holdings
Genres:	Case studies Conference papers and proceedings
Roles:	Author, Editor, htt, Other
Classifications:	S540.A2, 338.18

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works by Philip G Pardey

Saving seeds : the economics of conserving crop genetic resources ex situ in the future harvest centres of the CGIAR by Bonwoo Koo( )

22 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 999 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The conservation of genetic resources is vital to the maintenance of biodiversity and to the world's ability to feed its growing population. There are now more than 1000 genebanks worldwide involved in the ex situ (meaning 'away from the source') storage of particular classes of crops. Since the 1970s, the 11 genebanks maintained by the centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) have become pivotal to the global conservation effort. However, key policy and management issues - usually with economic dimensions - have largely been overlooked."

What's economics worth? : valuing policy research by Philip G Pardey( Book )

7 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 334 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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The future of food : biotechnology markets and policies in an international setting( Book )

10 editions published between 2001 and 2002 in English and Chinese and held by 242 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Science under scarcity : principles and practice for agricultural research evaluation and priority setting by Julian M Alston( Book )

15 editions published between 1995 and 1998 in English and held by 237 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Resources for agricultural science are scarce across the world. Yet even as resources are shrinking, agricultural science has expanded its inquiry into many new areas - such as environmental preservation, food quality, and rural development - without forsaking its more traditional concerns. In a time of right government budgets, research administrators are faced with the need to provide strong evidence that costs are justified by benefits. Science under Scarcity is an invaluable guide to the theory and methods necessary for evaluating research in agriculture and for setting priorities for resource allocation. Although economists have made significant progress in developing more sophisticated methods for research evaluation and priority setting, many research analysts and administrators do not have a working knowledge of those practices. Without the assistance of formal economic analysis it is particularly difficult to assess the social value of new technologies or to make informed judgments about the trade-offs that are involved in allocation decisions. Addressing that knowledge gap, Science under Scarcity reviews, synthesizes, and extends such methods as economic surplus analysis, econometric techniques, mathematical programming procedures, and scoring models. It discusses these practices in the context of scientific policy, describes their conceptual foundations, and explains how to do them

Paying for agricultural productivity by Julian M Alston( Book )

6 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 234 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The economics of agricultural R&D policy; Agricultural R&D investments and impacts; Agricultural R&D investments and institutions in the United States; Agricultural R&D policy in Australia; Agricultural R&D policy in the United Kingdom; Financing agricultural R&D in the Netherlands: the changing role of government; Agricultural R&D policy in New Zealand; A synthesis

Agricultural science policy : changing global agendas by Julian M Alston( Book )

8 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 225 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Making science pay : the economics of agricultural R & D policy by Julian M Alston( Book )

4 editions published between 1995 and 1996 in English and held by 198 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A comprehensive review of US agricultural research and development policy focusing on institutions and expenditures as well as proposals for change in financing, organization, and management. Agricultural economists Alston and Pardy develop the historical themes and issues in agricultural policy, the economic concepts embedded in its development, and the contemporary challenges of government involvement, funding, and research management. Includes statistical tables and charts

Agricultural research policy : international quantitative perspectives by Philip G Pardey( Book )

8 editions published in 1991 in English and Undetermined and held by 176 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Agricultural research in a policy context; Measuring agricultural research and economic development; Public sector agricultural research; Private sector agricultural research; Emerging issues

ISNAR agricultural research indicator series : a global data base on national agricultural research systems by Philip G Pardey( Book )

9 editions published between 1989 and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 169 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Basic concepts, definitions and measurements issues; Data sources; Agricultural research expenditure deflators and currency converts

Persistence pays : U.S. agricultural productivity growth and the benefits from public R & D spending by Julian M Alston( Book )

11 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 85 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Agricultural science policy in the United States has profoundly affected the growth and development of agriculture worldwide, not just in the A United States. Over the past 150 years, and especially over the second th half of the 20 Century, public investments in agricultural R & D in the United States grew faster than the value of agricultural production. Public spending on agricultural science grew similarly in other more-developed countries, and c- lectively these efforts, along with private spending, spurred agricultural prod- tivity growth in rich and poor nations alike. The value of this investment is seldom fully appreciated. The resulting p- ductivity improvements have released labor and other resources for alternative uses--in 1900, 29. 2 million Americans (39 percent of the population) were - rectly engaged in farming compared with just 2. 9 million (1. 1 percent) today-- while making food and fiber more abundant and cheaper. The benefits are not confined to Americans. U.S. agricultural science has contributed with others to growth in agricultural productivity in many other countries as well as the Un- ed States. The world's population more than doubled from around 3 billion in 1961 to 6. 54 billion in 2006 (U.S. Census Bureau 2009). Over the same period, production of important grain crops (including maize, wheat and rice) almost trebled, such that global per capita grain production was 18 percent higher in 2006"--Publisher's description

Agricultural research in China : its institutional development and impact by Shenggen Fan( Book )

9 editions published between 1992 and 1993 in English and held by 75 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Production agriculture; Institutional evolution of agricultural research; The contemporary agricultural system; Quantitative development and impact of chinese agricultural research

Agricultural R & D in the developing world : too little, too late? by Philip G Pardey( Book )

6 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 52 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Book combines new evidence with economic theory and an economic way of thinking about science policy--highlighting the developing-country aspects--as well as a set of in-depth, comparative country studies

Priority-setting mechanisms for national agricultural research systems : present experience and future needs by George W Norton( Book )

7 editions published in 1987 in English and held by 48 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Assessing and attributing the benefits from varietal improvement research in Brazil( Book )

2 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 43 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

This report provides a detailed economic assessment of the magnitude and sources of the economic benefits to Brazil since the early 1980s from varietal improvements in upland rice, edible beans, and soybeans. The authors pay particular attention to isolating the benefits from genetic improvement, which they distinguish from other factors that change grain yield or quality. They use detailed information on the genetic and breeding histories of each crop and the institutional arrangements for crop-improvement research in Brazil to estimate the benefits attributable to the research done by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and by other Brazilian agencies. They capture international spill-in effects as well. The authors also provide more general insight into the importance of addressing attribution questions in evaluating public research investments, develop some methods for doing so, and illustrate how to apply them

Innovation, growth and structural change in American agriculture by Julian M Alston( )

6 editions published in 2020 in English and held by 42 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

U.S. agriculture was transformed during the 20th century by waves of innovation with mechanical, biological, chemical, and information technologies. Compared with a few decades ago, today's agriculture is much less labor intensive and farms are much larger and more specialized, supplying a much-evolved market for farm products. Over recent decades, the global landscape for agricultural R&D has shifted away from farms, away from the public sector toward the private sector, and away from the United States towards agriculturally important middle-income countries, especially China, India and Brazil. U.S. investments in agricultural R&D are stalling even though meta-evidence shows that past U.S. investments in agricultural R&D have yielded very favorable returns: median reported benefit-cost ratios in the range of 12:1. Sustained U.S. investment and innovation will be required to preserve past productivity gains in the face of climate change, coevolving pests and diseases, and changing technological regulations--let alone increase productivity. Great potential exists for innovation in crop and livestock genetics and digital farming technologies to generate new products and production processes, but innovators are facing increasingly strong headwinds from social and political forces that seek to dictate technology choices

National agricultural research from a regional and agroecological perspective by Philip G Pardey( Book )

3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 41 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Slow magic : agricultural R & D a century after Mendel by Philip G Pardey( Book )

4 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 30 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A history of public agricultural R & D; The growing private sector; Research intensities; Global gaps in stocks of scientific knowledge; Agricultural biotechnologies; The rights to research

Science, Technology and Skills( )

1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 29 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Agricultural research : a growing global divide? by Institut international de recherche sur les politiques alimentaires( Book )

5 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 26 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Total science spending; Public agricultural R&D; Agroecologies and research spillovers; CGIAR trends; Development aid and agricultural R&D

Hidden harvest : U.S. benefits from international research aid by Philip G Pardey( Book )

4 editions published in 1996 in English and held by 21 WorldCat member libraries worldwide