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This book provides a detailed history of Farming Systems Research (FSR). While it includes the application of FSR to developed country agriculture, its main focus is on FSR in its original role, with small-scale, resource-poor farmers in less developed countries.
Foreword / Janice Jiggens -- Chapter 1 Introduction / Mike Collinson -- Editorial Introduction / Mike Collinson -- My initiation into FSR in Latin America / German Escobar -- A personal history in FSR / Peter Hildebrand -- The evolution of FSR-E in Asia through the mid 1970s: a view from IRRI / Richard Harwood -- FSR: a personal evolution / David Norman -- My SFR origins / Mike Collinson -- FSR's expanding conceptual framework / Robert Hart -- Evolving typologies for agricultural R & D / Mike Collinson -- The development of diagnostic methods in FSR / John Farrington -- Gender analysis: making women visible and improving social analysis / Hilary Sims Feldstein -- Relating problems and causes in FSR planning / Robert Tripp -- Editorial Introduction / Mike Collinson -- The application of FSR to technology development / Ann Stroud and Roger Kirkby -- Experiences in applying FSR in semi-arid Kenya / A.J. Sutherland and J.N. Kang'ara -- Farming systems extension in the USA / Cornelia Butler Flora and Charles Francis -- The evolution of the advisory services in Chile and the role of FSR / Julio A. Berdegué -- A farming systems contribution to agricultural policy analysis / John Dixon -- The Systems Research Department at INRA / J. Bonnemaire et al. -- Senegal's experimental units / Michel Benoit-Cattin -- Twenty years of systems research in southern Mali -- the Sikasso FSR experience / Willem Stoop et al. -- The institutionalization of FSR in east and southern Africa: an overview / Stuart A. Kean and M. Creasy Ndiyoi -- Institutionalizing FSR in Tanzania: a case study / Ann Stroud -- Institutionalizing FSR in Zambia: a stakeholder perspective / Stuart A. Kean and M. Creasy Ndiyoi -- Costs of on-farm research: a comparison of experiences in six countries / Elon H. Gilbert -- The history of FSR training in east, central and southern Africa / Ponniah Anandajayasekeram -- Orienting research to agricultural development: the ICRA training programme / Richard Hawkins -- A note: the story behind the 'guidelines' / William W. Shaner -- Ten years in the making: the Association for Farming Systems Research and Extension / Hal MacArthur -- Farming Systems Research and Extension in Latin America / Julio A. Berdegué -- An overview of FSR-E and FSR-E networks in Africa / James Olukosi -- The Asian Farming Systems Association / Nimal Ranweera -- Farm management and the farming systems approach / David Norman -- Anthropology, sociology and FSR / Constance M. McCorkle -- Agronomy and FSR -- a reluctant marriage? / Peter Hildebrand and Dennis Keeney -- Holism and FSR / Toon van Eijk -- The GIS and remote sensing contribution to the elaboration of system hierarchies in FSR / Evaristo Miranda -- FSR from a modelling perspective : experiences in Latin America / Roberto A. Quiroz et al. -- Moving participatory plant breeding forward : the next steps / Louise Sperling and Jacqueline A. Ashby -- Agroecosystems analysis : a systems application with a future? / Clive Lightfoot -- Water quality, agricultural practices and changes in farming and agrarian systems / J.P. Deffontaines, et al. -- Chapter 12 The Future of Farming Systems Research / Mike Collinson and Clive Lightfoot.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.