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Investment in Agricultural Research

29/02/2024 Go to Evidence

60% of Argentina's public expenditure on agricultural research is invested in the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) (GAP, 2023).

El 60% del gasto público de investigación agrícola en Argentina es invertido en el Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA) (GAP, 2023).

Agnew, J. & Hendery, S. (2023). T. Thompson (Ed.) 2023 Global Agricultural Productivity Report: Every Farmer, Every Tool. Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1338-informe-gap-2023-sobre-la-productividad-agricola-mundial

Public investment in R&D

29/02/2024 Go to Evidence

37% is the annual internal rate of return on public investment in agricultural research and development in Argentina (GAP, 2023).

37% es la tasa interna de rendimiento anual por la inversión pública en investigación y desarrollo agrícola en Argentina (GAP, 2023)

Agnew, J. & Hendery, S. (2023). T. Thompson (Ed.) 2023 Global Agricultural Productivity Report: Every Farmer, Every Tool. Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1338-informe-gap-2023-sobre-la-productividad-agricola-mundial

Public Investment in R&D

29/02/2024 Go to Evidence

17:1 is the benefit-cost ratio between public investment in agricultural research and development in Argentina (GAP, 2023).

17:1 es la relación beneficio-costo entre la inversión pública en investigación y desarrollo agrícola en Argentina (GAP, 2023)

Agnew, J. & Hendery, S. (2023). T. Thompson (Ed.) 2023 Global Agricultural Productivity Report: Every Farmer, Every Tool. Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1338-informe-gap-2023-sobre-la-productividad-agricola-mundial

Public Investment in R&D

29/02/2024 Go to Evidence

17 pesos was the economic value generated by each Argentine peso invested in agricultural research and development by public institutions in Argentina over a 50-year period (GAP, 2023).

Por cada peso Argentino invertido por instituciones pública de investigación y desarrollo agrícola en Argentina generó aproximadamente 17 pesos en valor económico durante un período de 50 años (GAP, 2023)

Agnew, J. & Hendery, S. (2023). T. Thompson (Ed.) 2023 Global Agricultural Productivity Report: Every Farmer, Every Tool. Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1338-informe-gap-2023-sobre-la-productividad-agricola-mundial

Impact of R&D on TFP

17/02/2024 Go to Evidence

0.007 percentage points was the positive and statistically significant effect of growth in domestic innovative activity on TFP growth in Latin America (Zaman, 2024).

0.007 puntos porcentuales fue el efecto positivo y estadísticamente significativo del crecimiento en la actividad innovadora doméstica sobre el crecimiento de la PTF en América Latina (Zaman, 2024).

Miethy, Zaman. (2024). Total factor productivity, transitional dynamics and endogenous growth accounting for Latin America: Evidence from two centuries' data. Economics of transition and institutional change, doi: 10.1111/ecot.12411

Effect of technological distance

17/02/2024 Go to Evidence

0.173 percentage points was the statistically significant effect of distance to the technological frontier on economic growth in Latin America in more than half of the cases analyzed (Zaman, 2024).

0.173 puntos porcentuales fue el efecto estadísticamente significativo de la distancia a la frontera tecnológica sobre el crecimiento económico en América Latina en más de la mitad de los casos analizados (Zaman, 2024).

Miethy, Zaman. (2024). Total factor productivity, transitional dynamics and endogenous growth accounting for Latin America: Evidence from two centuries' data. Economics of transition and institutional change, doi: 10.1111/ecot.12411

Spending on agricultural research

01/02/2024 Go to Evidence

$27.2 billion was global public agricultural R&D spending in 1991, rising to $48.9 billion in 2016, in constant 2015 purchasing power parity dollars (PPP$) (USDA, 2024).

USDA, 2024

USDA.2024. World Agricultural Production, Resource Use, and Productivity, 1961–2020. https://opsaa.iica.int/resource-1366-produccion-agricola-mundial,-uso-y-productividad,-1961-2020

Transformation of food systems

30/01/2024 Go to Evidence

5 to 10 billion dollars per year in net benefits would be generated by transforming the food system, equivalent to 4-8% of global GDP in 2020 (FSEC, 2024).

Entre 5 y 10 mil millones de dólares al año serían los beneficios netos de lograr una transformación del sistema alimentario, lo que equivale a entre el 4% y el 8% del PIB mundial en 2020. (FSEC, 2024)

FSEC.2024.The Economics of the Food System Transformation

Integrative approach to the bioeconomy

01/01/2024 Go to Evidence

One third of bioeconomy actions focus on technology and innovation, mainly in the secondary sector (54%), followed by 16% in the primary sector and 22% on intersectoral measures (FAO, 2024).

FAO, 2024

FAO.2024.The bioeconomy toolbox A guide to support the development of sustainable bioeconomy strategies and policies