Agronomy - Science in Action
ISBN: 9780891183020
Platform/Publisher: WOL / ACSESS
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Agriculture Aquaculture & Food Science; Agriculture;

The political environment which nourishes our science and technology has changed drastically during the last generation. It has changed from one which was generally benign toward agriculture, where the decision-makers were mostly acquainted with the farm and rural America, to one in which the decision-makers no longer clearly understand our vast basic food production system and the resources it depends on. While not hostile, the environment is no longer spontaneously caring and generous.
We have not been as willing, or able, to perform effectively in the present political environments as we have in others. Perhaps we have not been convinced that we should take part in fashioning this environment, or even know how to go about it if we were. The 1978 ASA Special Session speakers addressed how and why there is a need for assuring that decision-makers in agriculture have sound bases to chart the course of agricultural science and technology.


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