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Presents the report "Funding of Agricultural Research: Traditional Private Sector and nonconventional Alternatives," written by Melvin G. Blase and published by the Sustainable Development Department (SD) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) within the United Nations (UN), based in Rome, Italy. Describes the possibilities for funding, including check-off programs, debt-for-research conversions, development foundations, and joint research-commercialization ventures. Links to related resources.
Includes: background and philosophy of New Generation Coops (NGCs); NGCs vs. conventional coops; initiation and implementation of NGCs; producing methyl ester/biodiesel from soybean oil under conventional and new generation coop ownership and operation; conventional soybean marketing and processing; traditional system and NGC system; an illustrative case of a new generation coop owning and operating a community-based soybean processing/transesterification plant; biodiesel production potential in Central Missouri on a per acre basis; and the economics of an illustrative application of retained ownership on a per bushel basis.
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This book is a timely update on the new strategy of development. With financial backing from the Ford Foundation and the Indian government, Broehl and his associates undertook a comprehensive study of the village entrepreneur in South India.