International agriculture applies agricultural management and scientific principles to the problems of global food production and distribution, and studies how agricultural systems differ from country to country. Its coursework spans agricultural economics, comparative agricultural systems, international agribusiness and law, and development economics, alongside the global application of climate, soil, water resource, ecological and environmental study to crop and animal production. The field grew out of the recognition that farming systems, and the constraints farmers face, vary enormously across the regions and economies of the world.
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Central QuestionWhy does international agricultural research run through a consortium of separately located centers, the CGIAR system, rather than one single mandated international agriculture body, and what does each center study across commodities, livestock, water, forestry and policy? 1 Connections
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The CGIAR Fund supports 15 international agricultural research centers such as the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Center for International Forestry Research that form the CGIAR Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers and are located in various countries worldwide
Chelston Brathwaite (Wikipedia)
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former director general of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
Agnes Kalibata - Wikipedia
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president of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Ram Badan Singh - Wikipedia
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former assistance director of the Food and Agriculture Organization
John Boyd Orr (Wikipedia)
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first Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Ronnie Coffman, Wikipedia
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He is director of numerous research projects dedicated to international agriculture, food security and gender equity in agriculture.
David Lubin, Wikipedia
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He was pivotal in founding the International Institute of Agriculture in 1908, in Rome.
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