Agriculture, Environment and Health

Sustainable Development in the 21st Century

By: Vernon Ruttan

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Paperback | 12 January 1994

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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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Non-Fiction Industry & Industrial Studies Primary Industries Agriculture & Related Industries Medicine Medicine in General Public Health & Preventive Medicine Engineering & Technology Agriculture & Farming Agricultural Science Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment

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Preface
Sustainable Agricultural Growth	p. 3
Agricultural and Food System Scenarios for the 21st Century	p. 26
Constraints on Institutional Innovation: Transaction Costs, Incentive Compatibility and Historical Considerations	p. 48
Building Productive National and International Agricultural Research Systems	p. 77
Fragile Lands: Identification and Use for Agriculture	p. 104
Tales of Dissemination in Agriculture	p. 146
The Institutional Infrastructure for Health Research in Developing Countries	p. 186
Health Policy for Rural Areas: Sri Lanka	p. 208
Health Systems for Rural Areas: Kenya	p. 235
Institutional Capacity to Monitor the Sources and Effects of Environmental Change in Agriculture	p. 261
Monitoring the Effects of Acid Deposition and Climate Change on Agricultural Potential	p. 284
Institutional Capacity to Monitor the Interactions of Agricultural and Health Change	p. 308
Challenges to Agricultural Research in the 21st Century	p. 343
Global Research Systems for Sustainable Development: Agriculture, Health, and Environment	p. 358
Contributors	p. 381
Index	p. 387
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