Agricultural Research at the Crossroads

Global Agriculture and Revisited Resource-poor Farmers; Agricultural Development towards Modernization; Process of Adoption of Agricultural Innovations, Changes of Cultural Practices and Technical; Change among Revisited Resource-poor Farmers over almost Four Decades; Global Trends -Threats or Challenges to Future Food Security and Food Safety; Globalization and Agribusiness; Global Food Supply; The Challenge; Towards an Agricultural Vision; Agricultural Technology and Trends in Agricultural Research; Agricultural Research at the Crossroads -Reflections on Future R&D; International Agricultural Research through the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE); Some Issues in University Teaching and Future Role of Agricultural Universities; Development Assistance and Science Aid to Agricultural R&D; Annexes; Glossary; Acronyms and Abbreviations; The Millennium Development Goals; Major International Conferences and Conventions of Relevance to Poverty Eradication and Agriculture; Some Highlights of Impact, Research and Policy Orientation by CGIAR Institutes and ICIPE in the Mid-1970s and the Early 2000s; References