Researching the Culture in Agri-Culture: Social Research for International Agricultural Development

Edited by M M Cernea and A H Kassam
CABI December 2005

Hardback 480 pages ISBN 0851990037 £65.00

Paperback 480 pages ISBN 0851990266 £35.00

Researching the Culture in Agri-Culture: Social Research for International Agricultural Development Edited by , CGIAR Science Council This book analyzes the functions, content, methods, findings, and impacts of social and cultural research carried 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 in the Centers or within outside academic and development institutions. The authors examine 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 studies focus 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 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.

Readership: Agricultural economics, rural development, sociology and anthropology.

Contents

In Memoriam: Tribute to Robert K Merton
Foreword, Emil Q Javier and Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Stock Taking and New Challenges in Social Research. Editors' Preface, M M Cernea and A H Kassam
Acknowledgements

PART 1: SOCIAL RESEARCH FOR AGRICULTURAL POLICIES

Rites of Entrance and Rights of Citizenship: The Uphill Battle for Social Research in a Technological Environment, M M Cernea
Agricultural Institutions and Receptivity to Social Research: The Case of the CGIAR, A H Kassam
Who Are the Social Researchers of the CGIAR System? E Rathgeber, University of Ottawa, Canada

PART 2: THE INSIDERS' VIEWS: SOCIAL RESEARCH IN THE CGIAR SYSTEM

Rice for the Poor: The Call and Opportunity for Social Research, T R Paris, DAPO, Philippines, S Morin, F G Palis, and M Hossain
Understanding Forests-People Links: The Voice of Social Scientists, C J Pierce Colfer, CIFOR, Indonesia with E Dounias, M Goloubinoff, C Lopéz,and W Sunderlin
Humanizing Technology Development in the Green Revolution's Home, M R Bellon, CIMMYT, Mexico, M Morris, J Ekboir, E Meng, H De Groote, and G Saín
Water to Thirsty Fields: How Social Research Can Contribute, M Samad, International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka and D J Merrey
Rootcrops in Agricultural Societies: What Social Research has Revealed, G Prain, CGIAR System-wide Initiative on Urban & Peri-urban Agriculture, Lima, Peru,G Thiele, O Ortiz, and D Campilan
Why the 'Livestock Revolution' Requires Research on People, D Romney, ILRI, Nairobi, Kenya and B Minjauw
Aquatic Resources: Collective Management Patterns and Governance for the World's Fish Wealth, K Kuperan Viswanathan, World Fish Center, Dhaka, Bangladesh, M Ahmed, P Thompson, P Sultana, M Dey, and M Torell
Tropical Agriculture and Social Research: An Analytical Perspective, D Holland, Greening Australia, Inc, Australia, J Ashby, M Mejía, and J Voss
Dry Areas and the Changing Demands for Social Research, A A Aw-Hassan, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), Syria and M Abdelali-Martini
Agricultural Biodiversity and How Human Culture is Shaping It, P Eyzaguirre, IPGRI, Italy
Studying Property Rights and Collective Action: A System- Wide Program, R Meinzen-Dick, CGIAR, USA
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

Not Just One Best System: The Diversity of Institutions for Coping with the Commons, E Ostrom, Indiana University, USA
Social Research and Researchers in the CGIAR: an Underused Potential, R Chambers, University of Sussex, UK
The Rockefeller Foundation and Social Research in Agriculture, G Conway, The Rockefeller Foundation, USA, A Adesina, J Lynam, and J Moock
A Donor Perspective on the Accomplishments, Limitations, and Opportunities for Social Research, S Bode, USAID/EGAT/ESP/IRB,USA and D Rubin
Seeking Half our Brains: Constraints and Incentives in the Social Context of Interdisciplinary Research, R E Rhoades, University of Georgia, USA
Roots: Reflections of a 'Rocky Doc' on Social Science in CGIAR, S Guggenheim, The World Bank, USA
Social Science Knowledge as Public Good for Agriculture, D G Dalrymple, US Agency for International Development, USA

Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Index

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