Researching the culture in agri-culture [Elektronisk resurs] social research for international agricultural development / edited by Michael M. Cernea and Amir H. Kassam.

• Foreword / Emil Q. Javier and Per Pinstrup-Andersen -- Stock Taking and New Challenges in Social Research Editors’ Preface / Michael M. Cernea and Amir H. Kassam -- Part I Social Research for Agricultural Policies -- 1 Rites of Entrance and Rights of Citizenship: the Uphill Battle for Social Research in CGIAR / Michael M. Cernea -- 2 Agricultural Institutions and Receptivity to Social Research: the Case of the CGIAR / Amir H. Kassam -- 3 Who are the Social Researchers of the CGIAR System? / Eva Rathgeber -- Part II The Insiders’ Views: Social Research in the CGIAR System -- 4 Rice for the Poor: the Call and Opportunity for Social Research / Thelma R. Paris, Stephen Morin, Florencia G. Palis and Mahabub Hossain -- 5 Understanding Forests–People Links: the Voice of Social Scientists / Carol J. Pierce Colfer, Edmond Dounias, Marina Goloubinoff, Citlalli Lopéz and William Sunderlin -- 6 Humanizing Technology Development in the Green Revolution’s Home / Mauricio R. Bellon, Michael Morris, Javier Ekboir, Erika Meng, Hugo De Groote and Gustavo Saín -- 7 Water to Thirsty Fields: How Social Research Can Contribute / Madar Samad and Douglas J. Merrey -- 8 Rootcrops in Agricultural Societies: What Social Research has Revealed / Gordon Prain, Graham Thiele, Oscar Ortiz and Dindo Campilan -- 9 Why the ‘Livestock Revolution’ Requires Research on People / Dannie Romney and B. Minjauw -- 10 Aquatic Resources: Collective Management Patterns and Governance for the World’s Fish Wealth / K. Kuperan Viswanathan, Mahfuzuddin Ahmed, Paul Thompson, Parvin Sultana, Madan Mohan Dey and Magnus Torell -- 11 Tropical Agriculture and Social Research: an Analytical Perspective / Dean Holland, Jacqueline Ashby, Mariano Mejía and Joachim Voss -- 12 Dry Areas and the Changing Demands for Social Research / Aden A. Aw-Hassan and Malika Abdelali-Martini -- 13 Agricultural Biodiversity and How Human Culture is Shaping it / Pablo B. Eyzaguirre -- 14 Studying Property Rights and Collective Action: a Systemwide Programme / Ruth Meinzen-Dick -- 15 Crafting Food Policy with Social Science Knowledge / Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Michelle Adato, Marc Cohen, Curtis Farrar, Lawrence Haddad and Agnes Quisumbing -- Part III The Outsiders’ View: Issues, Expectations and Agendas -- 16 Not Just One Best System: the Diversity of Institutions for Coping with the Commons / Elinor Ostrom -- 17 Social Research and Researchers in CGIAR: an Underused Potential / Robert Chambers -- 18 The Rockefeller Foundation and Social Research in Agriculture / Gordon Conway, Akin Adesina, John Lynam and Joyce Moock -- 19 A Donor Perspective: Accomplishments, Limitations and Opportunities for Social Research / Scott Bode and Deborah Rubin -- 20 Seeking Half our Brains: Constraints and Incentives in the Social Context of Interdisciplinary Research / Robert E. Rhoades -- 21 Roots: Reflections of a ‘Rocky Doc’ on Social Science in CGIAR / Scott Guggenheim -- 22 Social Science Knowledge as a Public Good / Dana G. Dalrymple. 

• This book analyses the functions, content, methods, findings and impact of social and cultural research carried out by the worldwide network of 16 international agricultural research centres of the CGIAR. It brings together the perspectives of 50 eminent scholars and social researchers from 30 countries working within the centres or in outside academic and development institutions. The contributions examine critically the priorities, strengths, and weaknesses of research on the sociostructural, behavioural, cultural and institutional variables of developing agriculture, forestry, livestock and fisheries. The studies focus on farmers' values, needs, 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 and results, with emphasis on the nature of social science research as a source of international public goods and a key contributor to induced development. The book is intended for researchers of agricultural and rural development, economics, sociology, culture and anthropology. It has 22 chapters in addition to an editors' preface, and has a subject index. 

Ämnesord

Agriculture  -- Research -- Sociological aspects -- Congresses (LCSH)

Institutionsnamn

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research -- Congresses

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

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Klassifikation

S540.S63 (LCC)

338.1/072 (DDC)

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