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Agriculture, environment, and health : sustainable development in the 21st century

Title: Agriculture, environment, and health : sustainable development in the 21st century / Vernon W. Ruttan, editor.
Publication: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1994], ©1994.

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Ruttan, Vernon W.

Description

viii, 401 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

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Note

Based on papers presented at a conference held in Bellagio, Italy, in October 1991.

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Contents

1. Sustainable Agricultural Growth / Vernon W. Ruttan -- 2. Agricultural and Food System Scenarios for the 21st Century / Kirit S. Parikh -- 3. Constraints on Institutional Innovation: Transaction Costs, Incentive Compatibility and Historical Considerations / Douglass C. North -- 4. Building Productive National and International Agricultural Research Systems / Carl K. Eicher -- 5. Fragile Lands: Identification and Use for Agriculture / B. L. Turner II and Patricia A. Benjamin -- 6. Tales of Dissemination in Agriculture / Judith Tendler -- 7. The Institutional Infrastructure for Health Research in Developing Countries / Adetokunbo O. Lucas -- 8. Health Policy for Rural Areas: Sri Lanka / Godfrey Gunatilleke -- 9. Health Systems for Rural Areas: Kenya / Dan C. O. Kaseje -- 10. Institutional Capacity to Monitor the Sources and Effects of Environmental Change in Agriculture / Stephen L. Rawlins.
11. Monitoring the Effects of Acid Deposition and Climate Change on Agricultural Potential / J. A. Lee, David Norse and Martin Parry -- 12. Institutional Capacity to Monitor the Interactions of Agricultural and Health Change / David Bradley -- 13. Challenges to Agricultural Research in the 21st Century / Vernon W. Ruttan -- 14. Global Research Systems for Sustainable Development: Agriculture, Health, and Environment / David E. Bell, William C. Clark and Vernon W. Ruttan.

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93008527

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Columbia University Libraries