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3. Considerations and Criteria for the Sanrem Program Design
Pages 21-26

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... It must make use of and strengthen existing pools of indigenous knowledge available for the design and adoption of sustainable production systems. Research projects should seek to understand how physical, biological, economic, and social factors interact and must be balanced to manage agroecosystems in a sustainable manner.
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... This research must address all agroecological factors in devising cropping, livestock, and other food production systems and specific farming practices within such systems that are capable of improving human welfare, countering the detrimental effects of current agricultural practices and policies, and conserving natural resources as pressures on the global resource base increase. This effort will benefit not only the developing countries in which it is conducted and to which it is directed, but also the United States, through the development of more effective research methodologies, the training of U.S.
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... A major aim of the SANREM program would be to design and field test systems of sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. Research, thus, must illuminate the principles and theory that underlie sustainability.
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... Four research areas are common to all agroecosystems, and they provide the framework within which projects can address the broad range of issues relating to sustainable agriculture and natural resource management. They are integrated pest management, integrated nutrient management, the social, political, and institutional context, and integrated institutional management.
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... To achieve this goal IPM must be integrated with sustainable agriculture and resource management. More research is needed into fundamental ecological relations and management techniques involving pests and their hosts, parasites, predators, and antagonists; cultural and biological pest controls; and other factors that determine the ultimate impact of pests.
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... Attention to these concerns will demand a strong and innovative social science component in Be research design, the focus of which should be 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 the base of native and indigenous knowledge.
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  • pest management
  • nutrient management
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  • integrated pest

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  • resource policies
  • land tenure
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  • inadequate understanding
  • factors interact
  • organic matter
  • research proposal

  • science component
  • improving human
  • mineral nutrients
  • environmental quality
  • significant degree

  • institutional management
  • advance sustainable
  • vertebrate pests
  • control methods
  • training component

  • detrimental effects
  • factors play
  • include elements
  • farming practices
  • enhanced farm


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