Diversity, Farmer Knowledge, and Sustainability / / Joyce L. Moock; ed. by Robert E. Rhoades.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Moock, Joyce L.,
• MitwirkendeR: Adesina, Akinwumi A.,; Biggs, Stephen,; Bingen, R. James,; Boats, Susan,; Dvorak, Karen Ann,; Ehui, S. K.,; Ewell, Peter,; Eyzaguirre, Pablo,; Fujisaka, Sam,; Goldman, Abe,; Herdt, Robert W.,; Kang, B. T.,; Lewinger Moock, Joyce,; Lynam, John K.,; McAllister, Jean,; Merrill-Sands, Deborah,; Olalekan Williams, Timothy,; Prain, Gordon,; Rubin, Deborah S.,; Sawyer, Richard L.,; Scheidegger, Urs,; Spencer, D. S. C.,; Sperling, Louise,; Uribe, Fulgencio,; Voss, Joachim,
• HerausgeberIn: Rhoades, Robert E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 18 charts & graphs

The fourteen essays in this volume, written by anthropologists, geographers, and agricultural economists, were selected to bring social science perspectives to biologically oriented centers by identifying problems and formulating research strategies. Their findings offer special insights into the less favorable farming environments of Asia, Africa, and Latin America—places especially targeted for sustainability projects and where technical "western" agriculture has been least successful.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Farmer Knowledge, World Science, and the Organization of Agricultural Research Systems -- 2. Conserving and Increasing On-Farm Genetic Diversity: Farmer Management of Varietal Bean Mixtures in Central Africa -- 3. “The Friendly Potato”: Farmer Selection of Potato Varieties for Multiple Uses -- 4. Farmer Knowledge and Sustainability in Rice-Farming Systems: Blending Science and Indigenous Innovation -- 5. Constraints on Nitrogen Fertilizer Use on Sorghum in Semiarid Tropical India: Rainy-Season Hybrids -- 6. Farmer Participation and the Development of Bean Varieties in Rwanda -- 7. Management of Key Institutional Linkages in On-Farm Client-oriented Research -- 8. Village-Level Studies and Sorghum Technology Development in West Africa: Case Study in Mali -- 9. Labor Patterns in Agricultural Flouseholds: A Time-Use Study in Southwestern Kenya -- 10. Comparative Advantage of Crop-Livestock Production Systems in Southwestern Nigeria and the Technical Research Implications -- 11. Sense and Sustainability: Sustainability as an Objective in International Agricultural Research -- 12. Economic Analysis of Soil Erosion Effects in Alley- Cropping, No-Till, and Bush Fallow Systems in Southwestern Nigeria -- 13. Resource Degradation, Agricultural Change, and Sustainability in Farming Systems of Southeastern Nigeria -- Index