The allocation of resources to livestock research in Africa













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by
Camilla Toulmin
11 Bellbroughton Road
Oxford, OX2 6UZ

25 APR 1988

ALPAN - AFRICAN LIVESTOCK POLICY ANALYSIS NETWORK

Network paper No. 4
September 1985

This article is based an a Working Paper of the same title, LPU Working Paper No. 3, June 1984. International Livestock Centre for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK CENTRE FOR AFRICA (ILCA)
P.O. Box 5689, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Tel: 18 32 15 - Telex: ADDIS 21207

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.


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Introduction

The role of agricultural research

Resource allocation to research

Appropriate criteria and decision-making models

How is research policy actually determined?

Relative factor prices

The role of powerful interest groups

The influence of the research community

Conclusions for research policy

References