245 00 |a Agricultural science as international development : |b historical perspectives on the CGIAR era / |c edited by Helen Anne Curry, Timothy W. Lorek.

505 0_ |a 1. Locating ICARDA: The geopolitics of international agricultural research in the Middle East and North Africa -- 2. U.S.-India entanglements and the founding of ICRISAT in India -- 3. Conflicted landscape: CIAT and sugarcane in Colombia -- 4. CIMMYT's Early Years: Rooted in Mexican experience, designed to be international -- 5. Solving second-generation development problems: ICRISAT and the management of groundnuts, farmers, and markets in the 1970s -- 6. Breeding environments: WARDA and the pursuit of rice productivity in West Africa -- 7. Reconsidering excellence: natural and social science approaches to livestock research at ILRI -- 8. The protein factor: CIAT's bean improvement research in Central America -- 9. Fifty years of change in maize research at CIMMYT -- 10. Crop descriptors and the forging of system-wide research in CGIAR -- 11. Crop genetic diversity under the CGIAR Lens -- 12. When public goods go private: The CGIAR approach to intellectual property, 1990-2020.

520 __ |a "For more than fifty years, international aid for agricultural research has been shaped by an ad-hoc consortium known as CGIAR. Drawing on the best of recent historical scholarship, this book presents a compelling new look at the lasting influence of CGIAR around the world. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"-- |c Provided by publisher.