The research programme International Cooperation of the Agricultural Research Department (DLO-IC) of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) was founded in 1998 with the aim to support agricultural and environmental research for development and strengthen North-South partnerships. The programme that embraced contributions from all five science groups of Wageningen University and Research centre (Wageningen UR) consisted of two phases (1998-2001 and 2002-2005). Within those eight years, about 70 multi-annual collaborative North-South projects were carried out under the umbrella of DLO-IC, of which about half were related to Rural Development and Sustainable Agriculture (RDSA). The remaining half was classified in the themes global food chains, agrobiodiversity, nature management, integrated water management and enabling policies (North-South Centre 2004).
The objective of this chapter is to summarize the results from the scientific, capacity-building and policy-oriented activities, draw major lessons and outline the way ahead on the basis of the experiences and new developments as outlined in previous chapters, and emerging opportunities. We will first reflect on ideas that shaped research approaches in agricultural and environmental sciences for development, then re-visit the objectives of the DLO-IC research programme between 1998 and 2005 (DLO 404) and, finally, provide a frame for assessing the programme’s accomplishments and future challenges in the field of sustainable agriculture and rural development.
Detailed summaries of selected DLO-IC projects and inventories of lessons for each project are presented in Chapter 7 of this volume (De Jager et al. 2007).
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Botkin, J.W., Elmandjra, M. and Malitza, M., 1979. No limits to learning. Bridging the human gap. The Report to the Club of Rome. Pergamon Press, Oxford.
De Jager, A., Ritsema, C., Mosugu, M., Meijerink, G., Van den Brink, P., Van den Bosch, H., Van den Elsen, E., Roetter, R.P., Van Wijk, S., Verzandvoort-Van Dijck, S., Van Diepen, C.A. and Kamphuis, B., 2007. Project assessments. In: Roetter, R.P., Van Keulen, H., Kuiper, M., Verhagen, J. and Van Laar, H.H. (eds.) Science for agriculture and rural development in low-income countries. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 115-215.
Hengsdijk, H., Van den Berg, M.M., Roetter, R.P., Wang, G.H., Wolf, J., Lu, C.H. and Van Keulen, H., 2005. Consequences of technologies and production diversification for the economic and environmental performance of rice-based farming systems in East and Southeast Asia. In: Toriyama, K., Heong, K.L. and Hardy, B. (eds.) Rice is life: Scientific perspectives for the 21st century. Proceedings of the World Rice Research Conference held in Tokyo and Tsukuba, Japan, 4-7 November 2004. International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños and Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba, CD-ROM, pp. 422-425.
Kuiper, M., Meijerink, G. and Eaton, D., 2007. Rural livelihood: Interplay between farm activities, nonfarm activities and the resource base. In: Roetter, R.P., Van Keulen, H., Kuiper, M., Verhagen, J. and Van Laar, H.H. (eds.) Science for agriculture and rural development in low-income countries. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 77-95.
Leeuwis, C., 2004. Communication for rural innovation. Rethinking agricultural extension. Blackwell Science, Oxford.
LNV, 2005. Vision on knowledge. Internal note, Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, The Hague (in Dutch).
North-South Centre, 2004. DLO Research Programme International Cooperation. Interdisciplinary research for sustainable development in the South. DLO-IC Annual Report 2003. Wageningen, 40 pp. (http://www.boci.wur.nl/UK/Archive/ ).
Perez, C.A., Neely, C., Roncoli, C. and Steiner, J. (eds.), 2007. Making carbon sequestration work for Africa’s rural poor: Opportunities and constraints. Special Issue, Agricultural Systems 94(1), 1-110.
Roetter, R.P. and Van Keulen, H., 2007. Food security. In: Roetter, R.P., Van Keulen, H., Kuiper, M., Verhagen, J. and Van Laar, H.H. (eds.) Science for agriculture and rural development in low-income countries. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 27-56.
UN, 1992. Agenda 21. UN Department of Economics and Social Affairs, Division for Sustainable Development, United Nations, New York.
Van Paassen, A., Roetter, R.P, Van Keulen, H. and Hoanh, C.T., 2007. Can computer models stimulate learning about sustainable land use? Experience with LUPAS in the humid (sub-)tropics of Asia. Special Issue, Agricultural Systems, 94(3), 874-887.
Verhagen, J., Wösten, H. and De Jager, A., 2007. Agriculture and environment. In: Roetter, R.P., Van Keulen, H., Kuiper, M., Verhagen, J. and Van Laar, H.H. (eds.) Science for agriculture and rural development in low-income countries. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 57-75.
WCED (World Commission on the Environment and Development), 1987. Our common future. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 400 pp.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 Springer
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Roetter, R.P., Van Keulen, H., Kuiper, M., Verhagen, J., Meijerink, G. (2007). Lessons Learned. In: Roetter, R.P., Van Keulen, H., Kuiper, M., Verhagen, J., Van Laar, H.H. (eds) Science for Agriculture and Rural Development in Low-income Countries. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6617-7_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6617-7_6
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-1-4020-6616-0
Online ISBN: 978-1-4020-6617-7
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life SciencesBiomedical and Life Sciences (R0)