Adequate public research capacity is key to the appropriate development of biotechnology, including genetically …), introducing products of public research depend on indigenous capacity. This paper defines capacity for agricultural biotechnology … remaining for capacity, research and development. Knowledge of investments in public biotechnology improves policy decisions …

This paper examines the economic determinants and impacts of agricultural research, particularly biotechnology research …, with a view to understanding the potential of agricultural biotechnology to address the needs of the poor in developing … revolution, agricultural biotechnology research is primarily being conducted by private firms in industrialized countries to …

by private firms based in industrialized countries. The dominance of the private sector in biotechnology research and … benefit from biotechnology either because it is not available or is too expensive. This paper examines the consequences of the … emergence of a few large companies as the leaders in the commercialization of biotechnology and analyses a number of concerns …

farmers in Africa. While some consider natural resource management (NRM) technologies as most appropriate, others propagate … technologies in the same context are not easily possible. We use representative data from maize-producing households in Kenya and a …