Funding international agricultural research and the need to be noticed: A case study of NERICA rice

Outlook on Agriculture

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 159-168

  Orr, Stuart ^a   Sumberg, James ^b   Erenstein, Olaf ^c   Oswald, Andreas ^d  

^a Panda House   (United Kingdom)

^b The New Economics Foundation (nef)   (United Kingdom)

^c NASC   (India)

^d INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

Author keywords

Green revolution; NERICA; Rice; WARDA; West Africa

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949130124     PISSN: 00307270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5367/000000008785915449     Document Type: Review

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