CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH

An Assessment of the Impact of
Agricultural Research in South Asia
since the Green Revolution

SCIENCE COUNCIL - CGIAR

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Science Council Secretariat
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (FAO)
Rome, 2008

The CGIAR Science Council encourages fair use of this material provided proper citation is made.

Correct citation: Hazell P.B.R.. 2008. An Assessment of the Impact of Agricultural Research in South Asia since the Green
Revolution. Science Council Secretariat: Rome, Italy.

Table of Contents

Contents
Tables
Acronyms and abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Summary

1. Introduction
2. The changing context for R&D

2.1 An economic and social transformation
2.2 National responses
2.3 The CGIAR response
2.4 Assessing the impact of agricultural R&D

3. Productivity impacts


3.1 Productivity impact pathways
3.2 Evidence on economy and sector-wide impacts
3.3 Evidence on commodity-wide impacts

4. Social impacts


4.1 Poverty impact pathways
4.2 Evidence on impacts within adopting regions
4.3 Evidence on economy and sector-wide impacts
4.4 Evidence on inter-regional disparities
4.5 Evidence on nutrition impacts

5. Environmental impacts


5.1 Environmental impact pathways
5.2 The R&D response
5.3 Evidence on impact in Green Revolution areas
5.4 Evidence on impact in less-favored areas

6. Policy impacts


Water policy
Bangladesh: Changing the course of food and agricultural policy
Pakistan: Examining the effectiveness of subsidies

7. Conclusions


Productivity impacts
Social impacts
Environmental impacts
Policy impacts
Emergent issues
Reaching marginal farmers
Food price and growth linkage effects
Impact assessment issues

References