Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: the case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

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dc.creatorAlene, A.
dc.creatorAbdoulaye, Tahirou
dc.creatorRusike, Joseph
dc.creatorLabarta, Ricardo Antonio
dc.creatorCreamer, Bernardo
dc.creatorRío Duque, Martha Lilia del
dc.creatorCeballos, H.
dc.creatorBecerra López Lavelle, Luis Augusto
dc.date2018-08-08
dc.date2018-08-17T10:37:44Z
dc.date2018-08-17T10:37:44Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:44:01Z
dc.descriptionIt is widely recognized that increasing agricultural production to the levels needed to feed an expanding world population requires sharply increased public investment in research and development and widespread adoption of new technologies, but funding for national and international agricultural research has rather declined in recent years. In this situation, priority setting has become increasingly important for allocating scarce research resources among competing needs to achieve greater impacts. Using partial equilibrium economic surplus models and poverty impact simulations, this paper assesses cassava research priorities in Africa, Latin America and Caribbean, and Asia based on the potential economic and poverty reduction impacts of alternative research and technology options. The results showed that efficient planting material production and distribution systems and sustainable crop and soil fertility management practices have the greatest expected economic and poverty reduction impacts in the three regions. Lack of clean planting materials is a major constraint to adoption and it is envisaged that efficient production and distribution systems for planting material can accelerate technology adoption by farmers. Similarly, sustainable crop and soil fertility management practices play a key role in closing the observed yield gaps, especially in Africa. The paper discusses the results of the priority assessment for key cassava research options and concludes with the implications for cassava research priorities.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/96587
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/86825
dc.languageen
dc.publisherPublic Library of Science
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceAlene, A. D., Abdoulaye, T., Rusike, J., Labarta, R., Creamer, B., del Río, M., Ceballos, H., & Becerra, L. A. (2018). Identifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: The case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. PLOS ONE, 13(8), e0201803. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201803
dc.subjectcassava
dc.subjectagricultural production
dc.subjectpoverty
dc.subjecttechnology
dc.subjectmanihot esculenta
dc.subjectproduction
dc.subjectsoil fertility
dc.titleIdentifying crop research priorities based on potential economic and poverty reduction impacts: the case of cassava in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
dc.typeJournal Article

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