TY - GEN AU - Alston, Julian M. AU - Sebastian, Kate AU - Beintema, Nienke M. AU - Hertford, Reed AU - Wood, Stanley AU - Wood-Sichra, Ulrike AU - You, Liang AU - Chan-Kang, Connie AU - Revoredo-Giha, César L. AU - Pardey, Philip G. TI - Research Futures: Projecting Agricultural R&D Potentials for Latin America and the Caribbean PY - 2011 Y1 - 2011/08/09 DO - 10.18235/0012331 AB - This volume offers substantive clarification of the proper roles for public agricultural research and development (R&D) throughout Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and introduces an analytical framework for assessing cross-country collective action in funding and carrying out research. To inform research policy decisions, the book provides a wealth of newly digested information about trends in agricultural production, productivity, consumption, and trade for the region, placing those trends in a comparative international context. It also provides new information about the spatial patterns of agricultural production and productivity in LAC - especially critical information for making informed research priority decisions given the inherent agroecological specificity of many agricultural technologies. UR - https://doi.org/10.18235/0012331 ER -