Improved STI capabilities will also continue to be needed if higher value addition in agriculture and food systems through local processing of agricultural produce into food products that command higher prices and provide higher incomes - which many developing countries are striving to achieve - are to be realized. First, there is a need to enhance productive capacities that could in turn increase yield and reduce the environmental and other impacts of agricultural expansion. Second, there is a drastic and immediate need to raise the living standards of people working in agriculture.