%0 Book Section
%A Joshi, P K
%A Bantilan, M C S
%B Priority setting, monitoring and evaluation in agricultural research 
%C New Delhi, India
%D 2000
%F icrisat:6351
%I National Center for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research and International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
%P 65-81
%T Institutionalisation of Research Prioritsation, Monitoring and Evaluation
%U http://oar.icrisat.org/6351/
%X Research priority setting, monitoring and evaluation (PME) have recently been introduced as  research management tools to efficiently allocate scarce research resources to alternative  choices. With squeezing agricultural research resources, research managers explore  procedures to allocate available resources to meet the unprecedented challenges of  increasing demand for additional food, and ever rising degradation of natural resources. An  efficient and well prioritised research resource allocation is reckoned to make maximum  contribution in improving the welfare gains of the society. To better allocate limited research  resources among alternative researchable areas, it is now recognised the need to  institutionalise the process of PME...