caa a22 4500 467929572 CHVBK 20180406152939.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10658-005-4039-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10658-005-4039-x Herdt Robert Adjunct International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA aut Establishing Priorities for Plant Science Research and Developing World Food Security [Elektronische Daten] [Robert Herdt] This paper begins with a broad review of food security in the developing world. I argue that technological change has made a key contribution to improving food security wherever it has been achieved and that plant sciences can contribute in the future. Potential contributions by plant scientists will have to be funded through development assistance. A perspective on development assistance and the role of assistance to agricultural research in particular provides a useful background to the consideration of how to set priorities for research using information on what is needed and what can be done. Optimizing the contributions of research entails five steps: (1) determine the specific objective, (2) identify alternatives to address the objective, (3) choose a method by which to set priorities, (4) apply the selected method to quantify priorities, (5) allocate available funds among the priority alternatives. Finally, it is important to take a long-term view and continue supporting the research long enough to make a difference. The paper discusses these steps, illustrates how such an approach might be applied and demonstrates the importance of applying economic criteria to research resource allocation. Springer, 2006 congruence nationallicence crop loss nationallicence development assistance nationallicence hunger nationallicence research priorities nationallicence technological change nationallicence European Journal of Plant Pathology Kluwer Academic Publishers 115/1(2006-05-01), 75-93 0929-1873 115:1<75 2006 115 10658 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-005-4039-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-005-4039-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Herdt Robert Adjunct International Professor of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 14853, Ithaca, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal of Plant Pathology Kluwer Academic Publishers 115/1(2006-05-01), 75-93 0929-1873 115:1<75 2006 115 10658 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer