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Research and agriculture: Challenging the public system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2009

David B. Danbom
David B. Danbom
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Professor, Department of History, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105.
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Abstract

The publicly sponsored agricultural research system in the United States has always had to deal with the tension between public expectations and scientific practices and standards. The equilibrium it established between those two contradictory demands has been unraveling since the 1960s. The contemporary challenge to the system is to redefine its public and scientific roles in an environment of rapid scientific change and of public debate and disunity.

Keywords

agricultural experiment stationsLISApublic agricultural researchscientific disciplinesagricultural technology
Type
Selected Papers from Conference on “Innovative Policies for Agricultural Research,” Boston, MA, November 21–22, 1991
Information
American Journal of Alternative Agriculture , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 1992 , pp. 99 - 104
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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