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Agricultural Science as International Development
Historical Perspectives on the CGIAR Era

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Editors:
Helen Anne Curry, Georgia Institute of Technology
Timothy W. Lorek, College of Saint Scholastica, Minnesota

Timothy W. Lorek, Helen Anne Curry, Courtney Fullilove, Prakash Kumar, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Lucas M. Mueller, Harro Maat, Rebekah Thompson, James Smith, Wilson Picado-Umaña, Derek Byerlee, Greg Edmeades, Sabina Leonelli, Marianna Fenzi, David J. Jefferson

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Publication planned for: October 2024
availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
format: Hardback
isbn: 9781009434669

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For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an unusual partnership: an ad-hoc consortium of national governments, foreign aid agencies, philanthropies, United Nations agencies, and international financial institutions, known as CGIAR. Formed in 1971 following the initial celebration of the so-called Green Revolution, CGIAR was tasked with extending that apparent transformation in production to new countries and crops. In this volume, leading historians and sociologists explore the influence of CGIAR and its affiliated international research centres. Traversing five continents and five decades of scientific research, agricultural aid, and political transformation, it examines whether and how science-led development has changed the practices of farmers, researchers, and policymakers. Although its language, funding mechanisms, and decision-making have changed over time, CGIAR and its network of research centres remain powerful in shaping international development and global agriculture. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
- Introduces the history of CGIAR through empirically rich, highly readable case studies of individual institutions or programs
- Closely examines the political, economic, social, and technical contexts that shaped CGIAR and its interventions in agricultural science and international development
- Places twelve historical studies of distinct facets of CGIAR history in conversation with one another
- This title is also available as Open Access
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'At long last, historians now have a substantive guide to the history and work of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). It is impossible to make sense of contemporary agriculture without understanding this organization, an essential node in post-war crop research in the Global South especially, but very little is known of its gigantic reach, its commitments, and its vision. Thanks to Curry and Lorek, this gangly institution comes into view.' Deborah Fitzgerald, MIT
'A long-awaited critical history of CGIAR, this is also the first book to examine its numerous centers in Asia, Latin America, and Africa in one place. Under coherent themes, contributors provide rich analysis of local, regional, and geopolitical dynamics that have constituted the world's largest agricultural development partnership. A perfect book for anyone interested in critical development studies, agricultural research, and global food security issues!' Hiromi Mizuno, University of Minnesota
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- Publication planned for: October 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009434669
- length: 324 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
Introduction: past, present, and future histories of CGIAR Timothy W. Lorek and Helen Anne Curry
Part I. Geopolitics:
1. Locating ICARDA: the geopolitics of international agricultural research in the Middle East and North Africa Courtney Fullilove
2. US-India entanglements and the founding of ICRISAT in India Prakash Kumar
3. Conflicted landscape: CIAT and sugarcane in Colombia Timothy W. Lorek
4. CIMMYT's early years: rooted in Mexican experience, designed to be international Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Part II. Science as Development:
5. Solving 'second-generation development problems': ICRISAT and the management of groundnuts, farmers, and markets in the 1970s Lucas M. Mueller
6. Breeding environments: WARDA and the pursuit of rice productivity in West Africa Harro Maat
7. Reconsidering 'excellence': natural and social science approaches to livestock research at ILRI Rebekah Thompson and James Smith
8. The protein factor: CIAT's bean improvement research in Central America Wilson Picado-Umaña
Part III. Science in the System:
9. Fifty Years of Change in Maize Research at CIMMYT Derek Byerlee and Greg Edmeades
10. Crop descriptors and the forging of 'system-wide' research in CGIAR Helen Anne Curry and Sabina Leonelli
11. Crop genetic diversity under the CGIAR lens Marianna Fenzi
12. When Public goods go private: the CGIAR approach to intellectual property David J. Jefferson
Index.
Editors
Helen Anne Curry, Georgia Institute of Technology
Helen Anne Curry is Melvin Kranzberg Professor in the History of Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Timothy W. Lorek, College of Saint Scholastica, Minnesota
Timothy W. Lorek is assistant professor of history and director of the program in Global Sustainability and Justice at the College of St. Scholastica.
Contributors
Timothy W. Lorek, Helen Anne Curry, Courtney Fullilove, Prakash Kumar, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Lucas M. Mueller, Harro Maat, Rebekah Thompson, James Smith, Wilson Picado-Umaña, Derek Byerlee, Greg Edmeades, Sabina Leonelli, Marianna Fenzi, David J. Jefferson