Incentives for Ag Innovation

Feeding an additional three billion people over the next four decades and improving food security for one billion people who are currently hungry or malnourished—all in an era of worsening land and water scarcity, climate change, and declining crop yields—is a dire challenge. Meeting it will require a giant leap in agricultural innovation in developing countries, similar to the 1960s Green Revolution.

Earlier this year, we asked whether you think that donor-funded, market-based financing mechanisms—such as the Advance Market Commitment (AMC) for a pneumococcal vaccine currently in the pilot stage—could help. And if so, what are your candidates for an agricultural pilot? With thanks to those who participated, the comment period for the paper is closed. For more information, please read final working paper, Pulling Agricultural Innovation and the Market Together, and check CGD’s Views from the Center blog for posts on this topic. We look forward to an ongoing dialogue, and hope that you continue to spread the word.

Food and Agriculture