How can high-growth areas such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America sustain agricultural production for current and future generations? Toward Sustainability explores research priorities to support sustainable agriculture. The book identifies six areas that could offer great rewards: addressing institutional constraints on resource conservation, enhancing soil biological processes, managing soil properties, improving water resource management, matching crops to environments, and effectively incorporating social and cultural dimensions into research.
Also highlighted is the importance of developing collaborative, integrated research strategies and flexible mechanisms to periodically evaluate and reassess research priorities.
- TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY
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- Contents
- TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY
- Summary
- A FRAMEWORK FOR ASSESSING RESEARCH PRIORITIES
- CRITICAL RESEARCH PRIORITIES
- AN INTEGRATED RESEARCH STRATEGY
- CONCLUSIONS
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Framework for Assessing Research Priorities
- KEY ELEMENTS IN THE RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
- SELECTING APPROPRIATE ORGANISMS AND HUSBANDRY
- APPLYING SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TO THE RESEARCH FRAMEWORK
- THE RESEARCH FRAMEWORK AND THE FARMER
- 3 Research Priorities To Support Sustainable Agriculture
- OVERCOMING INSTITUTIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON RESOURCE CONSERVATION
- ENHANCING SOIL BIOLOGICAL PROCESSES
- MANAGING SOIL PROPERTIES
- IMPROVING WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
- MATCHING CROPS TO ENVIRONMENTS
- INCORPORATING SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DIMENSIONS
- 4 Supporting an Integrated Research Strategy
- STRUCTURES TO LINK USERS AND RESEARCHERS
- STRUCTURES TO LINK RESEARCH COMPONENTS
- MECHANISMS TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF RESEARCH
- MECHANISMS TO SET RESEARCH PRIORITIES
- MECHANISMS TO INTEGRATE DATA REQUIREMENTS FOR SITE-SPECIFIC ANALYSIS
- CRITICAL COMMUNICATIONS ISSUES
- 5 Conclusions
- USE OF EXISTING KNOWLEDGE
- THE NEED FOR A CHANGE IN THE RESEARCH PARADIGM
- LINKS BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
- THE PROCESS OF SETTING PRIORITIES
- CURRENT RESEARCH PRIORITIES
- References
- APPENDIX A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
- APPENDIX B Workshop Participants October 1–2, 1990 Irvine, CA
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