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116 IGNRM … is a powerful integrative strategy of agricultural research that seeks to maximize the synergies among the disciplines of biotechnology, plant breeding, agronomy, agro-ecosystems and social sciences with people empowerment at its core. Which means two things: (1) IGNRM calls for synergy (2) among these sciences: biotechnology, plant breeding, agronomy, agro-ecosystems and social sciences. That tells me that these are the science fields in which activities happen that are unified under the concept of IGNRM. That is like saying this: Biotechnology + plant breeding + agronomy + agro-ecosystems + social sciences = IGNRM. I am beginning to like my steep learning curve on the IGNRM. Interpreting now, and recalling what I know, IGNRM is all of these: Through biotechnology and plant breeding, Team ICRISAT is going to create new varieties of crops that are superior to those currently planted in terms of resistance to stresses (water, temperature), insect pests, diseases. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I see that: Via biotechnology, scientists are able to transfer the genes of resistance from one variety that has these genes to another that doesn’t have them, creating by the application of science a new crop variety. Via plant breeding, scientists are able to create new varieties that not only accept those gene transplants but also possess other superior characters such as high yield and low cost of cultivation (say, the crop is drought-resistant and so there is no need to irrigate the field). Via agronomy, scientists are able to determine what are the soil and crop practices that bring out the best in the new varieties. Via the perspective of agro-ecosystems, scientists are able to predict or at least appreciate how these new varieties will relate in the natural scheme of things, in relation to, say, other crops, poultry, livestock, the atmosphere, soils and water. Via the perspective of the social sciences, scientists are able to probe into how the new varieties would impinge on the lives of people sociologically, psychologically, anthropologically, economically, politically, historically. What’s In A Name?
117 Combine all that and you have IGNRM, I mean, what I have just told you is what I understand is Integrated Genetic and Natural Resource Management. If you can’t define it, describe it. If you can’t see the whole, look at the parts and tell me what you see. So, IGNRM is that complicated! Well, I don’t know of any science that is not complicated as long as it deals with people – as long as it is the scientists themselves explaining themselves. Which is a good thing. Because when scientists have problems explaining research intentions, implementations, interpretations, implications, they call on us popularizers of science, and I love that! That proves that we writers are their significant other and, you know, we like to feel needed too. From a website, I read this: ‘With improved rainwater management as an entry point along with Integrated Genetic and Natural Resource Management …’ (worldbank.org). Which means that with the simple act of teaching the handling of rainwater in the context of a good farming practice, scientists can enter into the lives of people in the villages and soon immerse them in IGNRM. You understand that I have two problems here. One, I have to be able to explain it to myself before I can write about it; so, I have to go and see if I can imbibe the essence of IGNRM. Two, I have to understand how the genetic resource is integrated with the natural resource; so, I have to go and clarify to myself the IGNRM process. The report is that with ICRISAT, in Kothapally, Andhra Pradesh, India, IGNRM has consisted of introducing broad-bed and furrow cultivation, planting Gliricidia on bunds for green manure, introducing new crops and cropping systems, integrated pest management, developing micro-enterprises (<strong>icrisat</strong>.org). In the Tad Fa and Wang Chai watersheds in Thailand, and Thanh Ha and Huong Dao watersheds in Vietnam, IGNRM has comprised of legumes being included in the cropping systems, contour cultivation, vegetative bunds, integrated pest management, diversified cropping. Like I told you, IGNRM is a tangle of items, a complication of terms. Are they trying to help the farmers, or are they trying to confuse them? Let me put it more simply: In practical terms, IGNRM is the use of knowledge in different fields of science for farmers to produce more for less, and to be able to enjoy a life of dignity without exploiting people or natural resources – or without other people exploiting them for their personal interests. That’s still complicated, but that will do for now. And I still don’t like IGNRM, the name, but I have to accept the stark reality of it. Acceptance is the beginning of wisdom. Yet, why not? ‘O, be some other name! / What’s in a name?’ Juliet asks of Romeo, his sweetheart in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Romeo & Juliet, in that very famous balcony scene (Act II, Scene 2). ‘That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet; / So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d …’ What’s In A Name?
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