Contents

List of Boxes

List of Tables

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

Executive Summary

1. Introduction

1.1

General perspectives

1.2

What Makes Rainfed Areas Different

1.3

The Need for Social-Science Skills

1.4

Research, Extension and Technological Change

1.5

Aims and Organisation of this Paper

2. Organisation and Management Issues in Research

2.1

Origin and Structure

2.2

What Makes Rainfed Areas Different, and How Successful has Research been?

2.3

Organisation of Research Services at the State Level

2.4

Finance for Research

2.5

Recent Changes in the Organisation and Management of Research

2.6

Shifting the Balance between "Core" and "Contract" Funding

2.7

Strengthening the Organisation and Management of Research

3. Organisation and Management Issues in Extension

3.1

The Organisation of Extension Services at State Level

3.2

Lessons Learned and New Approaches

3.3

ICAR and Extension

3.4

Strengthening the Organisation and Management of Extension

4. Enhancing Farm-Level Technology through Stronger Research-Extension Linkages

4.1

Current Linkage Arrangements

4.2

Research-Extension Linkages and the Role of the Private Sector

4.3

Strengthening Research-Extension Linkages

5. Enhancing Technology Support for Rehabilitated Microwatersheds

6. Enhancing Farm-Level Spread of Technology Embedded in Input Supply : The Example of Seed Provision

6.1

Plant Breeding and Varietal Release

6.2

Providing More and More Approriate Seed

6.3

Opportunities for Enhancing Farm-Level Technology through More Efficient Seed Provision

7. Implementation Strategy

References