Policy For Agricultural Research

The contributors to this volume, based on the Agriculture Research Seminars held annually at the University of Minnesota, examine the role of government, multinationals, and the emerging private sector (in both domestic and international contexts) in determining agricultural research policy.

Carl E. Pray is an associate professor. of agricultural economics, Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. He directed a major series of studies of the performance of Asian agricultural research systems while a staff member at the University of Minnesota. Vernon W. Ruttan is a Regents Professor of Economics and Agricultural Economics and an adjunct professor in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.