Agricultural Science as International Development

Historical Perspectives on the CGIAR Era
Herausgeber: Curry, Helen Anne; Lorek, Timothy W.

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Produktbeschreibung

For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an ad-hoc consortium known as CGIAR. Drawing on the best of recent historical scholarship, this book presents a compelling new look at the lasting influence of CGIAR around the world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009434706
• ISBN-10: 1009434705
• Artikelnr.: 72007675

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: past, present, and future histories of CGIAR Timothy W. Lorek
and Helen Anne Curry; Part I. Geopolitics: 1. Locating ICARDA: the
geopolitics of international agricultural research in the Middle East and
North Africa Courtney Fullilove; 2. US-India entanglements and the founding
of ICRISAT in India Prakash Kumar; 3. Conflicted landscape: CIAT and
sugarcane in Colombia Timothy W. Lorek; 4. CIMMYT's early years: rooted in
Mexican experience, designed to be international Gabriela Soto Laveaga;
Part II. Science as Development: 5. Solving 'second-generation development
problems': ICRISAT and the management of groundnuts, farmers, and markets
in the 1970s Lucas M. Mueller; 6. Breeding environments: WARDA and the
pursuit of rice productivity in West Africa Harro Maat; 7. Reconsidering
'excellence': natural and social science approaches to livestock research
at ILRI Rebekah Thompson and James Smith; 8. The protein factor: CIAT's
bean improvement research in Central America Wilson Picado-Umaña; Part III.
Science in the System: 9. Fifty Years of Change in Maize Research at CIMMYT
Derek Byerlee and Greg Edmeades; 10. Crop descriptors and the forging of
'system-wide' research in CGIAR Helen Anne Curry and Sabina Leonelli; 11.
Crop genetic diversity under the CGIAR lens Marianna Fenzi; 12. When Public
goods go private: the CGIAR approach to intellectual property David J.
Jefferson; Index.