Research Results - (PDF, 101 mb) - USAID

geographers, historians, and area-studies experts
of diverse nationalities (e.g., Ethiopia,
France, Germany, Holland, India, Mauritania,
Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Senegal, U.S.). Topics
span: ethnoetiological and therapeutic theory
and practice; ethnopharmacology and toxicology;
epidemiology; traditional methods of
disease prevention and control and other management
methods (e.g. artificial incubation, feed
supplementation); native healers; and delivery
of veterinary and public health care to rural
peoples.
4. People,Pasturesand Productivity(in progress).
This anthology, scheduled for publication in
1991, overviews basic issues and problems in
the sociology of range management and presents
a series of case studies based on SR-CRSP
research in Peru and Morocco. Also included '
an annotated bibliography of works in this field.
Seven of the eight chapters are authored by
present or past SR-CRSP participants.
5. PeasantAgropastoralism:Application of a Cross-
CulturalModel (working title). This scholarly
monograph, under contract to University of
Utah Press, draws upon SR-CRSP research in
highland Peru to validate a cross-culturally
workable model of peasant agropastoralism to
better inform development projects operating in
such mixed farming, subsistence-oriented
economies.
6.SR-CRSP Sociology Project Technical Reports.
On-going production and dissemination, with
reports housed in the following collections:
CABI, ILEIA (inAmsterdam), ODI's Pastoral
Development Network, NTIS, UMC's Ellis
Library, the University of Kentucky's Applied
Anthropology Collection.
7. "Communicating Project Results: A Model
from the Small Ruminant CRSP" presents a
global model of SR-CRSP communications
strategies as a useful guide to other international
development projects. The article is currently
under review by the newly created FSR&E
journal.
8. Brochure on the Sociology and Economics
Projects. A synopsis of Sociology and Econom-
ics efforts and achievements to date, with B&W
and/or color plates. Production of this item was
contigent upon continuation of the SR-CRSP
and is now scheduled for 1991.
9. On-going organized outreach and dissemination
of information about Sociology Project
achievements to local, donor, and other media
(print, radio, television). A highlight of this
effort in 1989-90 was inclusion of portions of the
SR-CRSP/Indonesia videotape, with commentary
by C. M. McCorkle, in the 13-part PBS
series "TheGentle Doctor Veterinary Medicine"
(segment on international veterinary
medicine).
Training Progress and Institutional
Development
D. Adkins, B5c Agcultural Joulism Uni-
I. Garba, MSc, Rural Sociology, University of
Missouri-Columbia, 1990.
J.Grimes, BSc, Agricultural Journalism, University
of Missouri-Columbia, 1989.
D. Kruse, BSc, Agricultural Journalism, University
of Missouri-Columbia,expected 1992.
Other Contributions
In 1989-90, M. F. Nolan and C. M.
McCorkle respectively initiated and served on a
UMC planning committee to establish the first,
university-wide Undergraduate Minor inInternational
Agriculture. Gilles, McCorkle, and
Nolan also presented a series of invited lectures
on gl:)bal animal agriculture to classes in the
UMC Department of Animal Science. McCorkle
gave a seminar on work-in-progress on the SR-
CRSP's model of biosocial roles in agricultural
and rural development to the 25th Annual
International Community Development Insti­
Sociological tute at UMC. Society She also Panel sat on the Women's 1990 Rural Career
Sociolog y l esndM.D
Paths in Rural Sociology. Gilles and M.D.
FernAndez addressed the 1990 American Asso­
ciation of Animal Sciences on the subject of
"Preparing for International Animal Agriculture:
The SR-CRSP Experience."
133