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1 Byerlee, D.; Harrington, L.; Sharif, M. 1991. Irrigated cropping systems of South Asia: Technological change and sustainability to the year 2000 and beyond. Paper prepared for the International Conference on "Agricultural Strategies in the 1990's: Issues and Policies", Pakistan Association of Agricultural Social Sciences (PAASS), Islamabad, Pakistan, 7-9 May 1991. 37p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 1848 Record No: H08143)
2 Traxler, G.; Byerlee, D.. 1991. The economic returns to crop management research in a post green revolution setting. Draft Journal paper no.1-912906P of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station, Project no.S 232 Ala 790. 28p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 2269 Record No: H010973)
3 Byerlee, D.. 1994. Issues and options for social scientists in germplasm oriented IARCs. In In Collinson, M. P.; Platais, K. W. (Eds.). Social science in the CGIAR: proceedings of a meeting of CGIAR Social Scientists held at the International Service for National Agricultural Research (ISNAR), the Hague, the Netherlands, 17-20 August 1992. Washington, DC, USA: World Bank. pp.5-7. (CGIAR Study Paper 28)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1 G000 COL, P 2242/21 Record No: H010960)
4 Traxler, G.; Byerlee, D.. 1992. Crop management research and extension: The products and their impact on productivity. Mexico: CIMMYT. CIMMYT economics paper no.5. vii, 57p.
Crop production ; Agricultural research ; Agricultural economics ; Developing countries ; Technology transfer
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 338.09 G000 TRA Record No: H012321)
5 Byerlee, D.; Franzel, S. 1993. Institutionalizing the role of the economist in national agricultural research institutes. Mexico, D.F., Mexico: CIMMYT. vi, 35p. (CIMMYT economic working paper no.93-01)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 630.72 G000 BYE Record No: H012844)
6 Byerlee, D.; Morris, M. 1993. Research for marginal environments: Are we underinvested? Food Policy, October:381-393.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 3403 Record No: H014248)
7 Hassan, R.; Faki, H.; Byerlee, D.. 1994. Improved wheat production practices and the question of economic efficiency in the Gezira Irrigation Scheme. In Saunders, D. A.; Hettel, G. P. (Eds.), Wheat in heat-stressed environments: Irrigated, dry areas and rice-wheat farming systems: Proceedings of the International Conferences, Wheat in Hot, Dry, Irrigated Environments, Wad Medani, Sudan, 1-4 February 1993; Wheat in Warm Area, Rice-Wheat Farming Systems, Dinajpur, Bangladesh, 13-15 February 1993. Mexico, DF, Mexico: CIMMYT. pp.78-95.
Wheat ; Cotton ; Crop production ; Economic aspects ; Economic analysis ; Pricing ; Irrigation programs / Sudan
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 633.11 G000 SAU Record No: H014813)
8 Byerlee, D.; Sheikh, A. D.; Aslam, M; Hobbs, P. R. 1984. Wheat in the rice-based farming system of the Punjab: Implications for research and extension. Unpublished report of a study conducted by NARC, Islamabad, Pakistan. 49p.
Wheat ; Rice ; Farming systems ; Cropping systems ; Tillage ; Soils ; Climate ; Irrigated farming ; Marketing ; Labor ; Agricultural credit ; Land use ; Fertilizers ; Weed control ; Irrigation scheduling ; Crop yield ; Agricultural research ; Agricultural extension / Pakistan / Punjab
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 5410 Record No: H025763)
9 Murgai, R.; Ali, M.; Byerlee, D.. 2001. Productivity growth and sustainability in post-green revolution agriculture: The case of the Indian and Pakistan Punjabs. The World Bank Research Observer, 16(2):199-218.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: P 7095 Record No: H035906)
10 Byerlee, D.; Lynam, J. K. 2020. The development of the international center model for agricultural research: a prehistory of the CGIAR. World Development, 135:105080. (Online first) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105080]
Agricultural research for development ; CGIAR ; International organizations ; Research networks ; Research systems ; Natural resources management ; Farming systems research ; Agricultural sciences ; Crop improvement ; Green revolution ; Funding ; International cooperation ; Political aspects ; Sustainability
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On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the CGIAR, this paper revisits the genesis of the international center model for agricultural research (IARC). This model became fashionable in the 1960s and was arguably the major institutional innovation of the 20th century for foreign assistance to agriculture. While the founding of the first IARCs is universally attributed to the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, we argue that based on new evidence, the creation of the IARCs was a logical conclusion of a process involving many actors that began immediately after World War I. First, we review FAO efforts to build regional and global research networks for the major cereals in the immediate post-WWII period. These networks linked closely to USDA and its legacy of scientific collaboration across US states that together with the Foundations, strongly influenced the design of the first two international centers for the major cereals. In Latin America, the various efforts by the US National Academy of Sciences, the US government and the countries of the region resulted in the creation of three centers for tropical agriculture, (only two of which exist today) with a broader research focus on farming systems and natural resources. Finally, we show how the establishment of four IARCs in Africa in different ways drew on a colonial legacy that had moved toward centralization of research across colonial territories since before WWII. All of these efforts over many decades involved a good deal of experimentation in organization, funding and governance to arrive at the standard IARC model that emerged. By the late 1960s, the genesis of another six IARCs was already in place stimulating the creation of the CGIAR to fund and coordinate the IARCs. The review concludes with a brief reflection on the successes and challenges of the IARC model over 50 years, and its relevance today.
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