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Agricultural science as international development : historical perspectives on the CGIAR era / edited by Helen Anne Curry, Timothy W. Lorek
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025Description: 1 Online-Ressource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781009434713
- 630.72 23/eng/20240412
- S540.8.C66
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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"--PPN: PPN: 1922672009Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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
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