This Summary Report analyzes the current state of the land-grant agricultural research system and the attitudes, background, productivity and research performance of its current scientists. Specifically, the report summarizes the survey responses of agricultural and life science faculty...

An analysis of the present situation of rural areas in general, and of the Romanian ones in particular, represents an endeavour which cannot be undertaken in the absence of a historical analysis of the development of the rural environment, given the fact that the rural space has never been a...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: R&D Spending and Agricultural Innovation - Organization and Emerging Trends -- Chapter 2: The Shifting Structure of Agricultural R&D: Worldwide Investment Patterns and Payoffs -- Chapter 3: Private Sector Research and Development -- Chapter 4: Structural Change...

The new challenges facing Eastern European rural and agricultural sector impose, among other things, a review of the links between knowledge production and its use to promote innovation. Given that, agriculture is the main source of livelihood for a large part of the rural population in Romania...

Research design and types -- Research methods -- Research problems and hypotheses -- Univariate data analysis -- Bivariate and multivariate data analysis -- Attribute data analysis -- Experimental design -- Survey sampling -- Data to knowledge

The challenge for agriculture and the emergence of agricultural research -- Birth of the land-grant university and its impact on agricultural research -- Institutionalization of agricultural research -- Changing paradigms in agriculture -- Recent paradigm changes in agriculture -- Success of...

Three forms of observation -- Agrarian landscapes -- Packaging agricultural variety -- Measuring stocks, conjecturing flows -- Stakeholder statistics -- Observing typicality -- Budget studies -- Epilogue

This article demonstrates how Integrated Agricultural Research for Development (IAR4D) impacts on collective marketing among smallholder farmers of southern Africa through increased crop productivity, yields and income. We use a quasi-experimental design to compare outcomes under IAR4D and under...