Libro
Analysis of agricultural research priorities in the Caribbean
Autor
Medina Castro, Héctor
Wood, Stanley R.
Carmichael, Charles
Dolly, David
Priorización de la Investigación Agropecuaria en América Latina y el Caribe.
Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Resumen
This report is structured as follows: chapter i provides this brief introduction. In order to set the background for priority setting in the Caribbean, chapter 2 provides a brief description of several National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) and of CARDI. In chapter 3, the alternative methologies reviewed with workshop participants are presented. The core of this report is contained in chapter 4. This chapter provides a model of an ARPSSC, along with some evaluations of research themes of common interest in the Caribbean. Chapter 4 also introduces a scoring model that can be used as a starting point to set priorities at the subregional level. Finally, chapter 5 presents concluding remarks and recommendations based on the experience of the project in the Caribbean