Accountability and Innovation: Challenges for Agricultural Economists

Challenges and Issues in the Next Decade: A Proactive Role for Agricultural and Resource Economists

Economic and environmental challenges in the global economy raise significant issues that require public policy and private sector attention over the next decade. Price volatility, invasive species, sustainable biofuels production, and climate change all affect our agricultural and resource base and its future. Agricultural and resource economists must provide analyses of public policy and priv...

Articulating the need for innovation and accountability.

Multidisciplinary Research: Implications for Agricultural and Applied Economists

We detail the rewards and barriers to participating in multidisciplinary research (MDR) using a 2011 survey of applied economists at U.S. universities. We compare these findings with an earlier 1993 survey to assess if rewards and barriers have changed over time. Different administrative levels of U.S. universities are sending contradictory signals regarding rewards from MDR. External funding a...

Innovation Capacity in Agricultural Sector

The changing context for agricultural development has highlighted a strong need to understand and adoptinnovation systems thinking. Science, technology and innovation policy has equated rural development toagricultural development. The main objective of this paper was to examine the role of innovation capacity inagricultural sector. With the growing diversification of rural livelihood options i...

Nursing education: quality, innovation and accountability.