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Strengthening linkages in agricultural research through a farming systems perspective: the role of social scientists

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Byerlee and Tripp as mentioned in this paper argued that the farming systems perspective in agricultural research should be seen as performing an integrative role in research systems, and that the desarrollo of this orientation ayuda a reforzar los vinculos dentro de los sistemas nacionales de investigacion entre los programas de productos and entre disciplinas for la investigacion tanto aplicada como adaptiva.
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SUMMARY The principal contribution that the farming systems perspective brings to agricultural research is a farmer and problem-solving orientation. Development of this orientation helps strengthen linkages in national research systems between commodity programmes and between disciplines for both applied and adaptive research. It can also strengthen linkages between research and extension and between research and policy analysis. Issues in strengthening each of these linkages are briefly reviewed with particular emphasis on the socio-economic dimensions and the potential role of social scientists. It is argued that the farming systems perspective in agricultural research should be seen as performing an integrative role in research systems. This can often be developed without significant institutional reorganization. Derek Byerlee y Robert Tripp: Reforzando vinculos en la investigation agricola a traves de una perspectiva de sistemas agricolas: Lafuncionde los cientificos sociales. RESUMEN El principal aporte que trae la perspectiva de los sistemas agricolas a la investigacion agricola es una oricntacion hacia el cultivador y la resolucion de problemas. El desarrollo de esta orientation ayuda a reforzar los vinculos dentro de los sistemas nacionales de investigacion entre los programas de productos y entre disciplinas para la investigacion tanto aplicada como adaptiva. Tambien puede reforzar vinculos entre la investigacion y la extension y entre la investigacion y el analisis de politicas. Se repasan brevemente los temas en el refuerzo de cada uno de estos vinculos, con enfasis especial en las dimensiones socioeconomicas y la posible funcion de los cientificos sociales. Se argumenta que la perspectiva de los sistemas agricolas en la investigacion agricola deben verse como cumpliendo un papel de integration en los sistemas de investigacion. Esto a menudo puede ser desarrollado sin una gran reorganization institucional.

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It is argued that the farming systems perspective in agricultural research should be seen as performing an integrative role in research systems.