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Agriculture, Environment, and Health offers a broad and challenging analysis of changes now under way at the global level in institutional design and policy reform that ultimately will promote sustainable growth in agricultural production.  Internationally known contributors from the agricultural, health, environmental, and social sciences argue that an interdisciplinary approach is essential to dealing with this global problem.  Particular attention is given to the institutions that conduct research and implement changes in technology and practice in the fields of agriculture and health as well as institutions that monitor the changes in resource endowments, the quality of the environment, and the health of productivity of the human resources employed in agricultural production.

Sustainable development, say the contributors - including Douglass C. North, Carl K. Eicher, and Godfrey Gunatilleke - will be achieved only if knowledge from separate areas is effectively communicated and integrated into the basis of all research conclusions and directives.  Agriculture, Environment, and Health contributes to the productive building of bridges  between research efforts across the fields of health, environment, and agriculture.


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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Preface
  2. Vernon W. Ruttan
  3. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Part I. Introduction
  1. 1. Sustainable Agricultural Growth
  2. Vernon W. Ruttan
  3. pp. 3-20
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  1. Part II. Setting the Stage
  2. pp. 21-25
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  1. 2. Agricultural and Food System Scenarios for the 21st Century
  2. Kirit S. Parikh
  3. pp. 26-47
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  1. 3. Constraints on Institutional Innovation: Transaction Costs, Incentive Compatibility, and Historical Considerations
  2. Douglass C. North
  3. pp. 48-70
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  1. Part III. Agricultural Research, Resource Management, and Technology Dissemination
  2. pp. 71-76
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  1. 4. Building Productive National and International Agricultural Research Systems
  2. Carl K. Eicher
  3. pp. 77-103
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  1. 5. Fragile Lands: Identification and Use for Agriculture
  2. B. L. Turner II, Patricia A. Benjamin
  3. pp. 104-145
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  1. 6. Tales of Dissemination in Agriculture
  2. Judith Tendler
  3. pp. 146-180
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  1. Part IV. Health Research and Health Systems
  2. pp. 181-185
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  1. 7. The Institutional Infrastructure for Health Research in Developing Countries
  2. Adetokunbo O. Lucas
  3. pp. 186-207
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  1. 8. Health Policy for Rural Areas: Sri Lanka
  2. Godfrey Gunatilleke
  3. pp. 208-234
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  1. 9. Health Systems for Rural Areas: Kenya
  2. Dan C. O. Kaseje
  3. pp. 235-255
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  1. Part V. Monitoring Global Change
  2. pp. 257-260
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  1. 10. Institutional Capacity to Monitor the Sources and Effects of Environmental Change in Agriculture
  2. Stephen L Raw/ins
  3. pp. 261-283
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  1. 11. Monitoring the Effects of Acid Deposition and Climate Change on Agricultural Potential
  2. J. A. Lee, David Norse, Martin Parry
  3. pp. 284-307
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  1. 12. Institutional Capacity to Monitor the Interactions of Agricultural and Health Change
  2. David Bradley
  3. pp. 308-338
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  1. Part VI. Perspective
  2. pp. 339-342
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  1. 13. Challenges to Agricultural Research in the 21st Century
  2. Vernon W. Ruttan
  3. pp. 343-357
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  1. 14. Global Research Systems for Sustainable Development: Agriculture, Health, and Environment
  2. David E. Bell, William C. Clark, Vernon W. Ruttan
  3. pp. 358-379
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 381-386
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 387-401
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