Editors:
- Illustrates implementation of novel research approaches to Rural Development and Sustainable Agriculture in low-income countries
- Draws lessons from pluri-annual collaborative research projects on RDSA from sub-Saharan Africa and E, S and SE Asia
- Identifies gaps in knowledge and outlines future challenges and promising directions of RDSA research
- Provides examples of contributions of research to increased knowledge and strengthened research capacity), and recognizes failures of collaborative research for improved future investments into generation of Agricultural Knowledge, Science & Technology for Development
- First time a long-term (1998 – 2005) national research programme on North – South cooperation dealing with RDSA has been evaluated
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Since 1998, the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Food Quality (LNV) promotes development-orientated agricultural and environmental research and strengthening of North-South partnerships through its International Cooperation (DLO-IC) research programme. By 2005, some 70 collaborative North-South projects had been carried out. All science groups in Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) were involved in the implementation of the programme and at least half the projects and activities undertaken were directly related to Rural Development and Sustainable Agriculture (RDSA).
Facing new challenges with respect to sustainable development strategies for low-income countries, related to global environmental change and globalization of markets, an interdisciplinary Wageningen research group set out to draw lessons from the DLO-IC projects of the last eight years, stimulate discussion and support identification of a future research agenda for RDSA. In that process, special emphasis was given to lessons for future thinking about the contribution of agriculture to: 1) poverty alleviation and rural livelihoods; 2) food security, human nutrition and health; 3) environmental sustainability and natural resource management.
In discussing the way ahead, a number of major research challenges, as well as policy questions are outlined. These include the interrelations between climate change and food security and environmental degradation, increased demand for biofuels and animal feed, and competing claims on natural resources, and rural development and livelihood strategies in low-income countries.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"The book includes a description of 12 specific projects dealing with different topics of rural development in Africa and Asia. The projects cover a variety of subjects, including deforestation, erosion, soil and water management, and land use change. … this book is a valuable contribution that is of particular interest to those concerned with food security and global environmental and economic change." (Vicente Barros, Eos, September, 2008)
Editors and Affiliations
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Soil Science Centre, Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands
Reimund P. Roetter
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Plant Production Systems Group Agrosystems Research, Plant Research International, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands
Herman Keulen
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International Trade and Development, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands
Marijke Kuiper
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Agrosystems Research, Plant Research International, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands
Jan Verhagen
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Crop and Weed Ecology Group, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Netherlands
H. H. Laar
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science for Agriculture and Rural Development in Low-income Countries
Editors: Reimund P. Roetter, Herman Keulen, Marijke Kuiper, Jan Verhagen, H. H. Laar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6617-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6616-0Published: 29 November 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-9285-5Published: 13 October 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6617-7Published: 18 November 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVI, 220
Topics: Agriculture, Environment, general, Development Economics, Ecology, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences