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Agriculture, environment, and health : sustainable development in the 21st century /

Offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the implications of changes in institutional design and policy reform now underway at the global level. Particular attention is given to the institutions that conduct research and implement changes in technology and practice in the fields of agriculture and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ruttan, Vernon W.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1994.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sustainable agricultural growth / Vernon W. Ruttan
  • Agricultural and food system scenarios for the 21st century / Kirit S. Parikh
  • Constraints on institutional innovation: transaction costs, incentive compatability, and historical considerations / Douglass C. North
  • Building productive national and international agricultural research systems / Carl K. Eicher
  • Fragile lands: identification and use for agriculture / B.L. Turner II and Patricia A. Benjamin
  • Tales of dissemination in agriculture / Judith Tendler.
  • Institutional infrastructure for health research in developing countries / Adetokunbo O. Lucas
  • Health policy for rural areas: Sri Lanka / Godfrey Gunatilleke
  • Health systems for rural areas: Kenya / Dan C.O. Kaseje
  • Institutional capacity to monitor the sources and effects of environmental change in agriculture / Stephen L. Rawlins
  • Monitoring the effects of acid deposition and climate change on agricultural potential / J.A. Lee, David Norse, and Martin Parry
  • Institutional capacity to monitor the interactions of agricultural and health change / David Bradley.
  • Challenges to agricultural research in the 21st century / Vernon W. Ruttan
  • Global research systems for sustainable development: agriculture, health, and environment / David E. Bell, William C. Clark, and Vernon W. Ruttan.