Setting Agricultural Research Priorities: Lessons from the CGIAR Study
回顾了CGIAR技术咨询委员会（TAC）的优先事项设定方法，重点介绍了其最近一次使用定量分析确定研究优先事项并将其与资源分配联系起来的尝试，并评估了该方法的优缺点。
cultural Research (CGIAR) is a loose associa tion of 40 donor agencies who provide about 250 million dollars annually to support international agricultural research on developing country problems in 18 institutes.The CGIAR is a rel atively small actor on the global scene.repre senting less than 5% of agricultural research ex penditures in developing countries and less than 2% of global public sector expenditure on ag ricultural research (Gryseels and Anderson).Therefore. it has always had to be selective in choosing the nature and focus of the research it supports.Priority setting and advice on resource allocation is provided by an independent Tech nical Advisory Committee cr AC).In this paper we provide a brief review of TAC's approaches to priority setting before focusing on their most recent exercise completed in I (J(J2.This effort was by far the most comprehensive attempt to use quantitative analysis to identify priorities and link them to resource allocation.The approach described in TACjCGIAR (19(J2) is best char acterized as a modified congruence approach or scoring model.using a spreadsheet.The paper concludes with a critical appraisal of the strengths and weaknesses of the TAC approach relative to other approaches.Ak" F. McCalla I)' prtlfc�sllr \If At!rlcullural ECllnlln11l:�.lInt\er sity of California.[)