TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cernea,M.M.
AU  - Kassam,A.H.
TI  - Researching the culture in agri-culture: social research for international development
T2  - CABI Books
SN  - 9781845931469
PY  - 2005///
CY  - WallingfordUK
PB  - CABI Publishing
KW  - resource management
KW  - socioeconomic aspects
KW  - agricultural research
KW  - socioeconomics
KW  - fisheries
KW  - social values
KW  - social order
KW  - social structure
KW  - natural resources
KW  - agricultural development
KW  - social aspects
KW  - rural development
KW  - CGIAR
KW  - Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
KW  - agriculture
KW  - sociology
KW  - interdisciplinary research
KW  - food security
KW  - forestry
KW  - poverty alleviation
N2  - This book analyzes the functions, content, methods, findings, and impacts of social and cultural researchcarried 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 within the Centers or within outside academic and development institutions. The authorsexamine 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 studiesfocus 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 andresults, with emphasis on the nature of social science research as a source of international public goodsand a key contributor to induced development
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1079/9780851990033.0000
UR  - https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/action/showBook?doi=10.1079%2F9780851990033.0000
ER  -