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creators_name: McCalla, A F
creators_name: Ryan, J G
icrisatcreators_name: Ryan, J G
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
affiliation: University of California(Davis)
country: India
country: USA
title: Setting Agricultural Research Priorities: Lessons from the CGIAR Study
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.4
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pres_type: paper
abstract: The Consultative Group on International Agfi-cultural Research (CGIAR) is .1 loose BSSOCtft' lion of 40 donor agencies who provide about 250 million dollars annually to support international agricultural research on developing country problems in 18 institutes. The CGIAR is a relatively small actor on the global scene, representing less than 5% of agricultural research expenditures in developing countries and less than 2% of global public seclor expenditure on agricultural research (Gryseels and Anderson). Therefore, it has always had to be selective in choosing the nature and focus of the research it supports. Priority setting and advice on resource allocation is provided by an independent Technical Advisory Committee (TAC). In this paper we provide a brief review of TAC's approaches to priority setting before focusing on their most recent exercise completed in 1992. This effort was by far the most comprehensive attempt io use quantitative analysis to identify priorities and link them to resource allocation. The approach described in TAC/CGIAR (1992) is best characterized as a modified congruence approach or scoring model, using a spreadsheet The paper concludes with a critical appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of the TAC approach relative lo other approaches.
date: 1992
date_type: published
publication: American Journal Of Agricultural Economics
volume: 74
number: 5
publisher: Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
pagerange: 1095-1100
refereed: TRUE
issn: 1467-8276
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1242763 
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citation:   McCalla, A F and Ryan, J G  (1992) Setting Agricultural Research Priorities: Lessons from the CGIAR Study.  American Journal Of Agricultural Economics, 74 (5).  pp. 1095-1100.  ISSN 1467-8276     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/4379/1/Am.J.Agr.Econ_74_5_1095-1100_1992.pdf