Agricultural research problems in small developing countries: Case studies from the South Pacific Island Nations
研究了南太平洋小岛国因规模小、生产营销特殊而难以通过研究实现农业技术改进的问题，提出需加强国际与区域合作、调整国家研究计划以吸纳外部知识，并寻求更精简的研究模式。
While research-based technological improvements are an important part of a successful agricultural development strategy, the small South Pacific Island Nations face special difficulties in attaining such innovations because of their particular agricultural production and marketing circumstances and because of diseconomies of small size in research. There is a need to sharpen the focus of national agricultural research efforts on adaptive work, implying both increased international and regional collaboration and the reorientation of national programs to be more receptive to outside ideas and information. It is particularly important to seek a parsimonious research paradigm, involving a broadening of the range of people who contribute to the research process.