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Brazil and the CGIAR centers : a study of their collaboration in agricultural research
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Brazil and the CGIAR centers : a study of their collaboration in agricultural research
An efficient national research system is a precondition for productive collaboration with international agricultural research centers (IARC"s), according to this study, which details the changes in Brazil"s research system since the early 1970"s and the fruits of IARC collaboration with that system.
Homem de Melo, Fernando Bento · 1970
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Abstract
Improvements in Brazilian agricultural research have been due largely to the creation in 1973 of the Brazilian Company of Agricultural Research (EMBRAPA), which generated increased attention to research activities at the federal level and helped correct an unbalanced pattern of technical innovation. The study describes the Brazilian setting and, in some detail, the structure, infrastructure and institutional support, pricing, performance, and policy issues of the agricultural sector. EMBRAPA"s structure and its impact on the research system are also discussed. The contribution of IARC"s to the national research system, which has consisted mainly in the provision of genetic materials, is reviewed, and descriptive lists of new varieties developed within Brazil"s national system - with and without IARC collaboration - are provided. Conclusions and eight pages of references follow.
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