This paper discusses the measurement of R&D spillovers (specifically spill-ins) to the agricultural and food processing sectors. We report measures of direct inter-sectoral and international spillovers based on the Yale Technology Concordance (YTC) and patent data for 14 less developed...

Conversion of forests for agricultural lands is the most important cause of deforestation in the tropics. For this reason it is often argued that conservation of tropical forests can only be successful if drastic measures and undertaken to protect the forest area from encroachment by shifting...