The role of a cognitive anthropologist in a farming systems program that has everything

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gladwin, Christina H. (author)
    Format:
    Conference paper
    Publication Date:
    1982
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07413
    Subject Term:
    decision making, extension systems, farming systems research, Guatemala, models, and social factors
    Notes:
    INTERPAKS, In: Report of an Exploratory Workshop on the Role of Anthropologists and Other Social Scientists in Interdisciplinary Teams Developing Improved Food Production Technology, Los Banos, Philippines: International Rice Research Institute, 1982. p. 73-92, Discusses the contribution that an anthropologist can make to the design of a farming systems program. Describes the program of the Guatemalan Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology which focuses on the farmer as a decision maker. A decision model in constructed and tested and the policy implications of the results are discussed.

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