Agricultural science as international development : historical perspectives on the CGIAR era / edited by Helen Anne Curry, Timothy W. Lorek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Curry, Helen Anne, editor.

Lorek, Timothy, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Research--International cooperation--History.

Agriculture.

Agricultural development projects--History.

Agricultural development projects.

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 319 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

1. Locating ICARDA: The geopolitics of international agricultural research in the Middle East and North Africa

2. U.S.-India entanglements and the founding of ICRISAT in India

3. Conflicted landscape: CIAT and sugarcane in Colombia

4. CIMMYT's Early Years: Rooted in Mexican experience, designed to be international

5. Solving second-generation development problems: ICRISAT and the management of groundnuts, farmers, and markets in the 1970s

6. Breeding environments: WARDA and the pursuit of rice productivity in West Africa

7. Reconsidering excellence: natural and social science approaches to livestock research at ILRI

8The protein factor: CIAT's bean improvement research in Central America

9. Fifty years of international maize research at CIMMYT

10. Crop descriptors and the forging of system-wide research in CGIAR

11. Crop genetic diversity under the CGIAR Lens

12. When public goods go private: The CGIAR approach to intellectual property

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Nov 2024).

ISBN:

9781009434683

1009434683

9781009434690

1009434691

9781009434713

1009434713