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This is Mario R Pareja, from Uruguay, again (previous messages 48 and 50).



I would like to respond to Dr Yapi, Message 51, in relation to economic impacts.



I am in full agreement with the need for participatory and multidisciplinary approaches. In our case (see my previous messages), the evaluation was done by a team composed of economists, sociologists, environment and institutional specialists and we conducted personal interviews (farmers, researchers, authorities, professors, farmer's associations, etc.), field surveys (directed to farmers) and focal groups with technicians that advise farmers. 



In relation to economic impacts, I should clarify that the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA) in Uruguay is funded by a tax-levy contributed by the farmers, an additional to ALL agricultural transactions taxes, done in the country (internally as well as for export). The government matches these funds. The board of directors is composed of farmers' as well as government representatives. This assures that farmers are in control of agricultural research, development and innovation (R&D&I) and significantly direct the research lines themselves. The economic impact evaluation was then targeted to demonstrate to both groups, private farmers and state representatives, that the money was being used properly.



For the macro-level study, we used the following indicators in a time line of 20 years: 1) agricultural productivity, with indicators of partial productivity for certain crops, beef and dairy production, and 2) total productivity factor (of all agricultural production factors) and total agricultural GDP.



Mario R. Pareja

Ingeniero Agrónomo, M.S., Ph.D.

Camino Carámbula Casa 7,

Paraje El Colorado, Canelones,

Uruguay 

Telephone: 598-2-3654394 or 598-98372634

e-mail: parejamr (at) gmail.com



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