Transforming Institutions

The generation and application of knowledge is critical to meeting the enormous global challenges facing agriculture, yet major concerns remain: the poor have been last to benefit from research (as recently documented in the World Development Report and IAASTD); Many apparently effective technologies have not been adopted and societies have been losing confidence in agricultural science. In essence, why are research and extension institutions not effectively connected with those they are intended to benefit and so not valued and supported to the ... more