Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Agricultural Research Policy in an Era of Privatization: Introduction and Overview -- The Evolution of Public Research 1 Systems in Developing Countries: Facing New Challenges -- The Growing Role of the Private 2 Sector in Agricultural Research -- Joint Funding of Agricultural 3 Research by Producers and Government in Australia -- Farmer and Industry Funding of 4 Agricultural Research in Colombia -- Financing Agricultural Research 5 by Producers' Organizations in Africa -- Partnership of Producer and 6 Government Financing to Reform Agricultural Research in Uruguay -- Public-Private Cooperation in 7 Agricultural Research: Examples from The Netherlands -- Public-Private Interactions and 8 Technology Policy in Innovation Processes for Zero Tillage in Argentina -- Public-Private Sector Interaction 9 in the Indian Agricultural Research System: an Innovation Systems Perspective on Institutional Reform -- Privatization of Plant Breeding 10 in Industrialized Countries: Causes, Consequences and the Public Sector Response -- Plant Breeding Research in 11 Developing Countries: What Roles for the Public and Private Sectors? -- Managing Intellectual Property 12 and Income Generation in Public Research Organizations -- Reforming China's Agricultural 13 Research System -- Financing Agricultural Research 14 by Competitive Funds -- Index.