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Moderated conference on impact assessment of agricultural research: May 2014

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This is Dick Tinsley, Colorado State University, again.



While I have refrained from submitting comments for the last couple of weeks, I have read all 105 postings, much of it dealing with social issues and economics, which I am not all that well versed in. However, agriculture research is still a biological activity and needs to be substantially evaluated in biological terms. Thus, I would like to go back to my original posting (nr. 10) concerning the operational limits farmers have in accepting research results, particularly smallholders in developing countries with limited labor, even more limited energy to fuel that labor and limited access to contract tillage to minimize the labor. Thus allow me to ask the group as the discussion wrap-up, to consider how the operational limitations are impacting on agriculture research evaluations and is this an administrative void in the agriculture research - dissemination - acceptance process. John was reluctant include my original posting fearing it would divert the discussion. However, I think there were only 4 postings that mentioned it, and 2 were mine. I think that indicates the operational consideration for accepting agriculture research are just not on the radar screen. How can they be brought to the forefront and addressed, and once that is done will it increase the impact of agriculture research.



Thank you.  



Dr. Dick Tinsley

Soil and Crop Science Department, 

Colorado State University, 

Fort Collins, 

80523 USA

e-mail: Richard.Tinsley (at) colostate.edu



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