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Sustainable Management of Agricultural Research and Technology Dissemination (SMARTD) : A Strategic FrameworkRevitalizing agriculture is critical for rural Indonesia's economic prosperity. Historically, Indonesia's dramatic poverty reduction was driven by progress in agriculture and agriculture continues to be a potent driver of growth and poverty alleviation. Agricultural sector growth strongly induces non-agricultural sector growth in rural areas, particularly through demand for locally produced and services. Agricultural sector productivity growth (along with price changes) has remained the most important way out of poverty. To shift agriculture along these dimensions, Indonesia needs to transition from its current and ineffective public stance, growing subsidies and selective output protection, to a more aggressive provision of public goods and services that build support systems for farmers to achieve continuous productivity gains. This will require an enabling agriculture policy environment, significant improvement in the delivery of services, agricultural research and extension in particular, and supporting enabling investments, which will encourage small farmers to move to high value agricultural activities. This will boost employment and raise incomes in rural areas while creating a bigger rural market with greater trade and investment opportunities.
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Sustainable Management of Agricultural Research and Technology Dissemination (SMARTD) : A Strategic FrameworkRevitalizing agriculture is critical for rural Indonesia's economic prosperity. Historically, Indonesia's dramatic poverty reduction was driven by progress in agriculture and agriculture continues to be a potent driver of growth and poverty alleviation. Agricultural sector growth strongly induces non-agricultural sector growth in rural areas, particularly through demand for locally produced and services. Agricultural sector productivity growth (along with price changes) has remained the most important way out of poverty. To shift agriculture along these dimensions, Indonesia needs to transition from its current and ineffective public stance, growing subsidies and selective output protection, to a more aggressive provision of public goods and services that build support systems for farmers to achieve continuous productivity gains. This will require an enabling agriculture policy environment, significant improvement in the delivery of services, agricultural research and extension in particular, and supporting enabling investments, which will encourage small farmers to move to high value agricultural activities. This will boost employment and raise incomes in rural areas while creating a bigger rural market with greater trade and investment opportunities.
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Reviving Sri Lanka's Agricultural Research and Extension System : Towards More Innovation and Market OrientationThis review's objectives were to
 examine the structure and performance of the agricultural
 research and extension systems (public and private) at the
 central and provincial levels, identify successes as well as
 constraints to improving the system s effectiveness for
 fostering innovation, and propose options for further policy
 and institutional development, drawing on lessons from
 international experience. The review focused principally on
 nonplantation crops, although its main recommendations apply
 across the agricultural sector. This synthesis report
 summarizes the main findings of the review and builds upon
 them by adding some new elements. The conflict in Sri Lanka
 is explicitly recognized. Additionally, the implications of
 changes in the wider agricultural context for agricultural
 research and extension are explored, and have led to the
 adoption of an innovation systems perspective to organize
 the major findings