This chapter examines farmer financing of research on coffee, rice, sugarcane, and oil palm in Colombia. Information on the levy paid by producers is presented. Lessons learned from Colombia's experiences in farmer financing of research are also presented, and some implications for the future are...

This chapter draws from available literature as well as from a few African case studies to lay out the main issues and to suggest some lessons that may be useful to policy makers in implementing producer funding of agricultural research. Economic arguments for and against producer funding are...