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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: history of farming systems research
  name:
    name part: Collinson, M. P. (Michael P.)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Ebooks.
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: it
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 432 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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: …
  note: edited by M. Collinson.
  note: "IFSA"--Cover.
  note: Description based on opening page (viewed Mar. 23, 2015).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: This title is restricted to authorized TAMU and TAMHSC users.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural systems
    topic: Research
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
    topic: history
  subject:
    topic: Agricultural systems
    topic: Research
  classification: S494.5.S95 H57 2000eb
  classification: 630.72
  classification: S 494.5.S95 H673 2000eb
  identifier: 9781845933012 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 184593301X (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0851994059 (alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780851994055 (alk. paper)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  access condition: This title is restricted to authorized TAMU and TAMHSC users.
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 090326
    record change date: 20190418084200.0
    record identifier: in00004534533
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng