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ODA launches new research strategy
Journal of Environmental Management (1990) 30, 397
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ODA launches new research strategy Administration (ODA) has launched a new Strategy for Research on Renewable Natural Resources, described in a 30-page booklet released on 15
The Overseas Development
January 1990. The new strategy follows a 2-year comprehensive review by the ODA of its renewable natural resource (RNR) research priorities. The ODA aims to maintain its new proactive approach by concentrating on strategic monitoring and policy issues. Accordingly it will commission the Overseas Development Natural Resources Institute (ODNRI) and seven other British institutions to manage the new integrated programmes instead of administering research projects itself. In her foreword to the booklet, the Rt Hon Lynda Chalker MP, Minister for Overseas Development, says: “I believe that the thorough analytical approach taken to identify priorities is essential if the pattern of our research spending is to reflect the real needs of the majority of people in the developing countries and we are to identify the contribution that Britain’s scientific community can best make.” Research on RNRs in the areas of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, livestock and economics has been a vital component of Britain’s overseas aid programme throughout the 25 years of the ODA’s existence. The primary object of ODA-funded research is to develop and promote products and technologies that are consistent with environmentally sound and sustainable development and the alleviation of poverty. Much of this research has been undertaken at the ODA’s own scientific establishments, now amalgamated to form the ODNRI and located in new premises at Chatham. But the ODA also funds research at a wide range of other British centres including universities and institutions funded by the Research Councils. It also contributes to the funding of the research programmes of the International Agricultural Research Centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The new booklet includes the names of useful points of contact on RNR research at the ODA, ODNRI and other institutions managing the research programmes. Copies of the booklet may be obtained from the Research Section (Room E346) Natural Resources and Environment Department, ODA, Eland House, Stag Place. London SWIE 5DH.
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1990 Academic
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Notice
ODA launches new research strategy Administration (ODA) has launched a new Strategy for Research on Renewable Natural Resources, described in a 30-page booklet released on 15
The Overseas Development
January 1990. The new strategy follows a 2-year comprehensive review by the ODA of its renewable natural resource (RNR) research priorities. The ODA aims to maintain its new proactive approach by concentrating on strategic monitoring and policy issues. Accordingly it will commission the Overseas Development Natural Resources Institute (ODNRI) and seven other British institutions to manage the new integrated programmes instead of administering research projects itself. In her foreword to the booklet, the Rt Hon Lynda Chalker MP, Minister for Overseas Development, says: “I believe that the thorough analytical approach taken to identify priorities is essential if the pattern of our research spending is to reflect the real needs of the majority of people in the developing countries and we are to identify the contribution that Britain’s scientific community can best make.” Research on RNRs in the areas of agriculture, forestry, fisheries, livestock and economics has been a vital component of Britain’s overseas aid programme throughout the 25 years of the ODA’s existence. The primary object of ODA-funded research is to develop and promote products and technologies that are consistent with environmentally sound and sustainable development and the alleviation of poverty. Much of this research has been undertaken at the ODA’s own scientific establishments, now amalgamated to form the ODNRI and located in new premises at Chatham. But the ODA also funds research at a wide range of other British centres including universities and institutions funded by the Research Councils. It also contributes to the funding of the research programmes of the International Agricultural Research Centres of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). The new booklet includes the names of useful points of contact on RNR research at the ODA, ODNRI and other institutions managing the research programmes. Copies of the booklet may be obtained from the Research Section (Room E346) Natural Resources and Environment Department, ODA, Eland House, Stag Place. London SWIE 5DH.
397 03014797/90/040397+01
$03.00/0
0
1990 Academic
Press Limited