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Participatory Research and Development for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management: Understanding participatory research and development

Research and development can no longer be the exclusive domain of scientists. To find sustainable solutions to development problems, a wider range of actors must be involved. It is crucial, for example, that local stakeholders provide input to the process. Participatory research and development (PR&D) offers such an inclusive model. This three-volume sourcebook provides easy access to field-tested PR&D concepts and practices for practitioners, researchers, and academic. As well, it presents a comprehensive overview of PR&D and will serve as a general reference for trainers, policymakers, donors, and development professionals. The sourcebook captures and examines PR&D experiences from over 30 countries, illustrating applications in sustainable crop and animal production, forest and watershed management, soil and water conservation, and postharvest and utilization.

Developing Participatory Development Communication with Banana Farmers in
Uganda: A Case Example Banana is one of the most important crops in Uganda
and in many homes. Especially in central Uganda, it forms the staple food.

A Strategic Vision for Department of Energy Environmental Quality Research and Development

The National Academies' National Research Council undertook this study in response to a request from the Under Secretary of Energy to provide strategic advice on how the Department of Energy could improve its Environmental Quality R&D portfolio. The committee recommends that DOE develop strategic goals and objectives for its EQ business line that explicitly incorporate a more comprehensive, long-term view of its EQ responsibilities. For example, these goals and objectives should emphasize long-term stewardship and the importance of limiting contamination and materials management problems, including the generation of wastes and contaminated media, in ongoing and future DOE operations.

Committee on Building a Long-Term Environmental Quality Research and
Development Program in the Department of Energy, Board on Radioactive Waste
Management, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council.

Research and Development

DoE Could Enhance the Project Selection Process for Government Oil and Natural Gas Research

Although competitive oil and natural gas markets generally provide incentives for companies to invest in R&D, some industry experts believe these companies may underinvest in certain areas. A recent report noted important criteria for the DoE to consider in evaluating its oil and natural gas R&D efforts -- including the likelihood that industry would perform the research without fed. funding. This report reviews: (1) how much U.S. industry has invested in oil and natural gas R&D over the last 10 years, and the current focus of these activities; (2) how DoE's oil and natural gas R&D funding and activities compare with industry's; and (3) to what extent DoE ensures that its oil and natural gas R&D would not occur without federal funding. Illus.

United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548
December 29, 2008 The Honorable Byron L. Dorgan Chairman Subcommittee on
Energy and Water Development Committee on Appropriations United States
Senate ...

Contraceptive Research and Development

Looking to the Future

The "contraceptive revolution" of the 1960s and 1970s introduced totally new contraceptive options and launched an era of research and product development. Yet by the late 1980s, conditions had changed and improvements in contraceptive products, while very important in relation to improved oral contraceptives, IUDs, implants, and injectables, had become primarily incremental. Is it time for a second contraceptive revolution and how might it happen? Contraceptive Research and Development explores the frontiers of science where the contraceptives of the future are likely to be found and lays out criteria for deciding where to make the next R&D investments. The book comprehensively examines today's contraceptive needs, identifies "niches" in those needs that seem most readily translatable into market terms, and scrutinizes issues that shape the market: method side effects and contraceptive failure, the challenge of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, and the implications of the "women's agenda." Contraceptive Research and Development analyzes the response of the pharmaceutical industry to current dynamics in regulation, liability, public opinion, and the economics of the health sector and offers an integrated set of recommendations for public- and private-sector action to meet a whole new generation of demand.

The theory has been advanced that an increasingly global market might be
helpful in alleviating some of the constraints to contraceptive research and
development that prevail in the United States, in terms of offering options for
collaborative ...

Contract Research and Development Adjuncts of Federal Agencies

An Exploratory Study of Forty Organizations

Roles of Industry and the University in Computer Research and Development

A Report

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT IN COMPUTER SCIENCE Computer science
is special among the sciences in that technological developments have tended to
govern the overall direction of the field. Two technological achievements — the ...

Research and Development for the NHS

Evidence, Evaluation and Effectiveness

Revised and updated for the third edition, this text provides a practical overview of the NHS Research and Development Programme, paying particular attention to primary care issues.

In 1999, Professor Michael Clarke was commissioned by the Central Research
and Development Committee to undertake a review of the NHS R&D levy.2 He
also undertook to advise on the strategic decisions implicit in the allocation
process ...

International conference on impacts of agricultural research and development: why has impact assessment research not made more of a difference?

Proceedings of a conference by the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment (SPIA) of the Interim Science Council, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Economics Program, the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), 4-7 February 2002, San José, Costa Rica.

The development of quantitative measures for a wide range of government
activities can be difficult: those that seem important may be difficult to measure;
those that can be more easily measured may be trivial. More generally, as a
recent ...

Participatory Research and Development for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management: Doing participatory research and development

Research and development can no longer be the exclusive domain of scientists. To find sustainable solutions to development problems, a wider range of actors must be involved. It is crucial, for example, that local stakeholders provide input to the process. Participatory research and development (PR&D) offers such an inclusive model. This three-volume sourcebook provides easy access to field-tested PR&D concepts and practices for practitioners, researchers, and academic. As well, it presents a comprehensive overview of PR&D and will serve as a general reference for trainers, policymakers, donors, and development professionals. The sourcebook captures and examines PR&D experiences from over 30 countries, illustrating applications in sustainable crop and animal production, forest and watershed management, soil and water conservation, and postharvest and utilization.

Adaptive management begins with participatory analysis of the situation at the
project site, development of a specific set of hypotheses about what is occurring
and identification of actions that could lead to a desired outcome and negotiation
of ...

Participatory Research and Development for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management: Enabling participatory research and development

Research and development can no longer be the exclusive domain of scientists. To find sustainable solutions to development problems, a wider range of actors must be involved. It is crucial, for example, that local stakeholders provide input to the process. Participatory research and development (PR&D) offers such an inclusive model. This three-volume sourcebook provides easy access to field-tested PR&D concepts and practices for practitioners, researchers, and academic. As well, it presents a comprehensive overview of PR&D and will serve as a general reference for trainers, policymakers, donors, and development professionals. The sourcebook captures and examines PR&D experiences from over 30 countries, illustrating applications in sustainable crop and animal production, forest and watershed management, soil and water conservation, and postharvest and utilization.

There is a growing literature concerning what goes on 'inside' those cultures, the '
black boxes' of development, their organizational behaviors, their ways of
knowing and doing development, their various development programs and
projects ...