Rice Science and Development Politics: Research Strategies and IRRI*s Technologies Confront Asian Diversity (1950-1980)

Anderson, Robert S., Levy, Edwin, Morrison, Barrie M.

ISBN 10: 0198283415 / ISBN 13: 9780198283416

Published by Oxford University Press, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rice Science and Development Politics: Research Strategies and IRRI*s Technologies Confront Asian Diversity (1950-1980)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198283415
• ISBN 13: 9780198283416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

In 1960, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) opened near Manila in the Philippines. It's goal was to help solve world food problems in such a way that the foundations' economic and political concerns about Asia would be allayed. This book is about IRRI's planning and development, the efforts to persuade Asian governments to try to increase food production by following IRRI's advice and the interplay of IRRI's technology, rice scientists, and national research strategies. Focusing on conditions in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, this study testifies to the necessity that the fundamental diversity of rice agriculture should be the organizing principle for an adequate research strategy and shows how strategies which are based on other organizing principles have met continuous difficulties and have ultimately been revised or abandoned. This book will be of particular interest to development and agricultural economists and sociologists.