Towards a natural resource management paradigm for international agriculture: the example of agroforestry research

The paper presents and discusses the dimensions of the integration of genetic improvement research and natural resource management research (integrated NRM) paradigm. It illustrates the discussions with examples drawn from the agenda which the International Research Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) has been developing. First the concepts of natural capital and ecosystem hierarchies are discussed as they form the backbone of the theoretical framework of the proposed agenda. The principal components of the agenda are discussed and illustrated using example from agroforestry research. In the last section the main differences between this new NRM paradigm and the more traditional genetic improvement paradigm are highlighted; and the dimensions of this agenda which are still unresolved are identified.

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