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26 | IAASTD Synthesis Report
Figure SR-P4. Public and Private Agricultural R&D Spending by Region, 2000.
and applied scientific capability. Breakthroughs in advance science will not lead to relevant effective and efficient applications that address development and sustainability unless investments in public, commercial and civil society at local levels are sustained or increased. The challenges ahead demand a greater focus on management systems—from crop to whole farm to natural resource area, landscape, river system and catchment scales. Management systems require sophisticated understanding of the institutional dimensions of management practices and of decision processes that must |
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be coordinated across variable spatial, temporal and hierarchical scales. AKST specialists will need a more profound understanding of the legal and policy frameworks that increasingly will steer agricultural and food system development. Emerging challenges. In all the regions, there is an overarching concern with poverty and livelihoods among the relatively poor, which are faced with intra- and inter-regional inequalities. The willingness of different actors, including |
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