Toward Sustainability A Plan for Collaborative Research on Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (1991) / Chapter Skim
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The symptoms and human costs of environmental deterioration are evident everywhere to varying degrees, but they are of special concern in the developing nations of the tropics, where soils are often shallow, highly weathered, low in fertility, and easily eroded; where agricultural ecosystems are subject to a greater number and variety of diseases, weeds, and other pests; where biological diversity is so remarkably rich and at greatest risk, and where economic constraints and development needs are most pressing. The size of the human population is expected to increase by 1 billion people the equivalent of an additional China—each decade well into the next century.
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THE RESEARCH CHALLENGE Fundamentally, achieving sustainable agriculture under the mounting pressure of human population growth will demand that the world's agricultural productive capacity be enhanced while its resource base is conserved. If the well-being of the world's less advantaged people is to improve in any lasting sense, long-range concerns about food security and the health of natural resources must be addressed in planning future economic and social development.
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The Need for a Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program The collaborative research support programs (CRSPs) of the Agency for International Development (AID)
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researchers, and the acquisition of results pertinent to the sustainability of U.S. agriculture and natural resources.
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This calls for a strong and innovative social science component in the research design that is- focused on the institutional and policy conditions that influence on-farm resource management patterns. This research should address issues of gender and age, the impact of production alternatives on social structure, and ways to strengthen critical human resources, including especially local and indigenous knowledge.
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A research core grant should support a long-term, full-scale interdisciplinary collaborative research program (the SANREM CRSP) on sustainable agriculture and natural resource management in one or more of the world's principal agroecosystems.
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Expanded planning grant proposals can serve as final core grant proposals, but core grant applicants should not be required to have applied for, or to have received, a planning grant. The awarding of type B research support grants should neither hinder nor promote the eligibility of the same institution for the core grant.
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Research of the kind needed is long term and complex, requiring sustained commitment that a new collaborative research support program can provide. Although a modest step given the extent of the challenge, the establishment of the SANREM program should catalyze support from other parts of AID and from other donor agencies, and contribute directly to developing sustainable agricultural systems and natural resource management strategies.
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