Social Sciences And Farming Systems Research

This book demonstrates how social science research has been applied to identify the causes of complex problems in technology change through a mixture of economic, social, and structural investigations. It highlights the applications of social science research in agricultural improvements.

List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Foreword /Peter E. Hildebrand -- Acknowledgments -- Part I -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1. Social Selence in farming systems research /Jeffrey R. Jones and Ben J. Wallace -- Part II -- CONCEPTS IN FARMING SYSTEMS RESEARCH -- Chapter 2. Anthropologist, biologist scientist and economist: the three musketeers or three stooges of farming systems research? /Robert E. Rhoades, Douglas E. Horton and Robert H. Booth -- Chapter 3. Basic vs. Applied Reaearch in Farming System: An Antbropologist's Appraisal /Stephen B. Brush -- Chapter 4. Developing Motional Technologies in a Farming System Research Context /James Chapman -- Part III -- CASE STUDIES IN ANNUAL CROP PRODUCTION -- Chapter 5. farming systems research as an alternative to cropping system research: an example from bangladesh /Ben J. Wallace and Ekramul Ahsan -- Chapter 6. Getting Marketing into Farming System Research: A Case Study from Western SUdan /Edward B. Reeves -- Chapter 7. Trials and Errors: Uq Farming System Reeearch in Agricultural Program for Women /Anita Spring -- Chapter 8. Farming System Research in Phalonibe. Malawi: the Limited Utility of High Yielding Varieties /Art Hansen -- Part IV -- CASE STUDIES IN LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION -- Chapter 9. Bvaluation of Tecbnological Alternatives for Small Farmers in Central America /Jeffrey R. Jones -- Chapter 10. Adaptation of Farming System Reeearch to the Study of pastoral production systems: The niger range and L1veBtock Project /John J. Curry, Jr. -- Part V -- CASE STUDIES IN AGROFORESTRY -- Chapter 11. Indigenous technology and Farming System Research: Agroforestry in the Indian Desert /Barry H. Michie -- Chapter 12. App1yling the PSR/E Approach In tbe Management of an AID Agroforestry Project /Edward Robins -- Part VI -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter 13. Social Science In FSR: Conclusions and Future Dlrections /Ben J. Wallace and Jeffrey R. Jones -- BIOGRAPHIES OF CONTRIBUTORS.