Abstract
Over the last fifty years, agricultural communities in developing countries have experienced dramatic changes in their requirements for and access to information, knowledge, and know-how related to cropping systems and commodity markets (World Bank 2008; chap. 8). As part of a post-World War II effort to use science and technology to enhance agricultural production, the development and dissemination of green revolution technologies (i.e., improved genetic materials and management practices for a range of cereal crops) engaged systems of research, innovation, assessment, development, and deployment to foster goals of agricultural development and economic prosperity (Conway 1997; Hazell 2009). Over time, with the changing landscape of agricultural production (Tillman et al. 2002; Rosegrant and Cline 2003), transformations in global food demand and marketing systems (McCullough et al. 2008), and increasing foci on sustainability objectives including environmental concerns, these systems have been required to evolve, or they ultimately fail to provide relevant support.
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This work was supported by a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Global Programs for the Knowledge Systems for Sustainable Development Project (see http://www.ksg.har-vard.edu/kssd) and by a grant from the Packard Foundation to the Center for Environmental Science and Policy in the Stanford Institute for International Studies. The authors would like to thank Wally Falcon, Roz Naylor, Ivan Ortiz-Monasterio, David Lobell, Lee Addams, Dagoberto Flores, José Luis Minjares, Louis Lebel, Peter Jewett, and Monika Zurek. In particular, we would like to thank William Clark for inspiring this work.
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McCullough, E., Matson, P. (2012). Linking Knowledge with Action for Sustainable Development: A Case Study of Change and Effectiveness. In: Matson, P.A. (eds) Seeds of Sustainability. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-177-1_5
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