Agricultural Research Problems in Small Developing Countries: Case Studies from the South Pacific Island Nations
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While research-based technological improvements are an important part of a successful agricultural
development strategy, the small South Pacific Island Nations face special difficulties in
attaining such innovations because of their particular agricultural production and marketing circumstances
and because of diseconomies of small size in research. There is a need to sharpen the
focus of national agricultural research efforts on adaptive work, implying both increased international
and regional collaboration and the reorientation of national programs to be more receptive
to outside ideas and information. It is particularly important to seek a parsimonious research
paradigm, involving a broadening of the range of people who contribute to the research process.