Cultivating trust in technology?mediated sustainable agricultural research

Linking international agricultural research knowledge with action for sustainable development.

We applied an innovation framework to sustainable livestock development research projects in Africa and Asia. The focus of these projects ranged from pastoral systems to poverty and ecosystems services mapping to market access by the poor to fodder and natural resource management to livestock parasite drug resistance. We found that these projects closed gaps between knowledge and action by comb...

Sustainable Agricultural Practices in India

Cultivating Recalcitrance in Information Systems Research

There is an ongoing debate about how to improve the quality of empirical research efforts in information systems. One of the persistent issues within the debate concerns the relative importance of social and technical aspects of an information system and how to study these different elements. Contemporary research within science and technology studies suggests that social science inquiries can ...

Ecosystem services and agriculture: Cultivating agricultural ecosystems for diverse benefits

Scott M. Swinton⁎, Frank Lupi, G. Philip Robertson, Stephen K. Hamilton Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1039, United States Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1039, United States Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, United States W.K...

Agricultural Biotechnology and Sustainable Development

founded in 1970 as the Canadian Environmental Law Research Foundation. It is an independent, not-for profit, environmental law and policy research and education organization. Over the last 15 years, CIELAP has been involved extensively in environmental law and policy development related to biotechnology. In 1984, CIELAP organized the first conference in Canada on environmental law and policy is...