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"This book analyzes the functions, content, methods, findings, and impacts of social and cultural researchcarried out by the worldwide network of 16 International Agricultural Research Centers of the CGIAR(Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). Its two main parts -""insiders"" and ""outsiders""-bring together the perspectives of over 50 eminent scholars and social researchers from 30 countries,working within the Centers or within outside academic and development institutions. The authorsexamine critically the priorities, strengths, and weaknesses of research on the socio-structural, behavioural,cultural, and institutional variables of developing agriculture, forestry, livestock, and fisheries. The studiesfocus on farmers' values, needs and knowledge, their patterns of social organization, issues of food security,natural resource management and poverty reduction. Alternative models of multidisciplinary research,reuniting biological, natural, economic and social sciences are scrutinized in the light of experience andresults, with emphasis on the nature of social science research as a source of international public goodsand a key contributor to induced development."

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Author:   Michael M. Cernea (CGIAR Science Council) ,  Amir Kassam (University of Reading, UK) ,  Amir Kassam (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy and University of Reading, UK) ,  Amir Kassam (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Italy and University of Reading, UK)
Publisher:   CABI Publishing
Imprint:   CABI Publishing
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.953kg
ISBN:  

9780851990262

ISBN 10:   0851990266
Pages:   480
Publication Date:   14 December 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

a: In Memoriam: Tribute to Robert K Merton b: Foreword, Emil Q Javier and Per Pinstrup-Andersen c: Stock Taking and New Challenges in Social Research. Editors' Preface, M M Cernea and A H Kassam d: Acknowledgements PART 1: SOCIAL RESEARCH FOR AGRICULTURALPOLICIES 1: Rites of Entrance and Rights of Citizenship: The Uphill Battle for Social Research in a Technological Environment, M M Cernea 2: Agricultural Institutions and Receptivity to Social Research:The Case of the CGIAR, A H Kassam 3: Who Are the Social Researchers of the CGIAR System?E Rathgeber, University of Ottawa, Canada PART 2: THE INSIDERS' VIEWS: SOCIAL RESEARCH INTHE CGIAR SYSTEM 4: Rice for the Poor: The Call and Opportunity for SocialResearch, T R Paris, DAPO, Philippines, S Morin, F G Palis, andM Hossain 5: Understanding Forests-People Links: The Voice of SocialScientists, C J Pierce Colfer, CIFOR, Indonesia with E Dounias,M Goloubinoff, C Lopéz,and W Sunderlin 6: Humanizing Technology Development in the GreenRevolution's Home, M R Bellon, CIMMYT, Mexico, M Morris,J Ekboir, E Meng, H De Groote, and G Saín 7: Water to Thirsty Fields: How Social Research CanContribute, M Samad, International Water ManagementInstitute, Sri Lanka and D J Merrey 8: Rootcrops in Agricultural Societies: What Social Research hasRevealed, G Prain, CGIAR System-wide Initiative on Urban &Peri-urban Agriculture, Lima, Peru,G Thiele,O Ortiz, and D Campilan 9: Why the 'Livestock Revolution' Requires Research on People,D Romney, ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya and B Minjauw 10: Aquatic Resources: Collective Management Patterns and Governance forthe World's Fish Wealth, K Kuperan Viswanathan, World FishCenter, Dhaka, Bangladesh, M Ahmed,P Thompson, P Sultana, M Dey, and M Torell 11: Tropical Agriculture and Social Research: An AnalyticalPerspective, D Holland, Greening Australia, Inc, Australia,J Ashby, M Mejía, and J Voss 12: Dry Areas and the Changing Demands for Social Research,A A Aw-Hassan, International Center for Agricultural Researchin the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria and M Abdelali-Martini 13: Agricultural Biodiversity and How Human Culture is ShapingIt, P Eyzaguirre, IPGRI, Italy 14: Studying Property Rights and Collective Action: A System-Wide Program, R Meinzen-Dick, CGIAR, USA 15: Crafting Food Policy with Social Science Knowledge ,R Meinzen-Dick, M Adato, M Cohen, C Farrar, L Haddad,and A Quisumbing PART 3: THE OUTSIDERS' VIEW: ISSUES,EXPECTATIONS, AND AGENDAS 16: Not Just One Best System: The Diversity of Institutions forCoping with the Commons, E Ostrom, Indiana University, USA 17: Social Research and Researchers in the CGIAR: anUnderused Potential, R Chambers, University of Sussex, UK 18: The Rockefeller Foundation and Social Research in Agriculture,G Conway, The Rockefeller Foundation, USA, A Adesina,J Lynam, and J Moock 19: A Donor Perspective on the Accomplishments, Limitations,and Opportunities for Social Research, S Bode,USAID/EGAT/ESP/IRB,USA and D Rubin 20: Seeking Half our Brains: Constraints and Incentives in theSocial Context of Interdisciplinary Research, R E Rhoades,University of Georgia, USA 21: Roots: Reflections of a 'Rocky Doc' on Social Science inCGIAR, S Guggenheim, The World Bank, USA 22: Social Science Knowledge as Public Good for Agriculture,D G Dalrymple, US Agency for International Development,USA e: Contributors f: List of Abbreviations g: Index

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Amir Kassam is: (i) Moderator of the FAO-hosted Global Platform for Conservation Agriculture Community of Practice (CA-CoP), (ii) Chairman of the International Conservation Agriculture Advisory Panel for Africa (ICAAP-Africa); (iii) Vice-Chairman of the Conservation Agriculture Association of the United Kingdom (CA-UK); (iv) a Member of the European Conservation Agriculture Federation (ECAF); (v) Visiting Professor in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, UK, where he teaches Conservation Agriculture; (vi) Convener of the Land Husbandry Group of the Tropical Agriculture Association (TAA), UK, Member of the Strategic Steering Group of the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI), UNEP, and Board member of the Asian Center of Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture Intensification (ACISAI) at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok. Kassam is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (UK), and a member of several international advisory committees, Boards and Panels. He is cited in several 'Who is Who' in the UK and the USA. He has published widely. In 2005, Kassam was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Honours List for services to tropical agriculture and to rural development.

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