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Dr. Roy Steiner is a highly experienced senior global agriculture and global development…
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Routledge Press February 1, 2016
What were new ideas 30 years ago, such as the concepts of participatory development and systems thinking, are now accepted norms in international development circles. The majority of professionals engaged in rural development accept the proposition that the people who participate in development should play an active role in defining, implementing, and evaluating projects intended to improve their productivity and lives. However this goal remains unrealized in many development…
What were new ideas 30 years ago, such as the concepts of participatory development and systems thinking, are now accepted norms in international development circles. The majority of professionals engaged in rural development accept the proposition that the people who participate in development should play an active role in defining, implementing, and evaluating projects intended to improve their productivity and lives. However this goal remains unrealized in many development programs.
Harnessing the Power of Collective Learning considers the challenges and potential of enabling collective learning in rural development initiatives. The book presents 11 case studies of organizations trying to develop and implement collective learning systems as an integral component of sustainable development practice. Through systematic reflection on action and experience, key lessons and themes emerge regarding the nature of voice, participation, feedback loops, accountability and transparency, that will be useful for many others in the development community.
This book is a useful resource for academics, practitioners and policy makers in the areas of international development, sustainable development, organizational development, philanthropy, learning communities, monitoring and evaluation and rural development.
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Wiley & Sons August 1, 1995
Sustainability has become an important concern for environmentalists, agricultural researchers, farmers, politicians and ordinary voters. All agree on the importance of ensuring that agricultural systems of production can, in some sense, be sustained, i.e. be operated in such a way that quality of output can be maintained year after year, without degradation of the environment. There is less agreement, however, on how this concept of sustainability should be interpreted, or precisely defined…
Sustainability has become an important concern for environmentalists, agricultural researchers, farmers, politicians and ordinary voters. All agree on the importance of ensuring that agricultural systems of production can, in some sense, be sustained, i.e. be operated in such a way that quality of output can be maintained year after year, without degradation of the environment. There is less agreement, however, on how this concept of sustainability should be interpreted, or precisely defined, let alone measured. It was against this background of lack of precision in defining the sustainability concept that the Rockefeller Foundation commissioned an international research study on sustainability to exploit the wealth of potential information in established long-term experiments. Six major centres of long-term experiments were invited to conduct detailed studies of their data and to address the issue of definition and, in particular, to make proposals on how to measure sustainability in quantitative terms. The book is divided into three sections:
Part I considers basic issues of definition and the choice of appropriate economic and statistical methodology
Part II presents the results of the six research studies
Part III draws together the conclusions, addresses the thorny issue of environmental externalities and makes proposals for future research and implementation.
The book has been structured as a comprehensive and unified contribution to this important issue and will be a valuable resource for researchers, professionals and policy makers interested in sustainability
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Managing Irrigation
Sage 1991
Languages
English
Native or bilingual proficiency
French
Elementary proficiency
German
Elementary proficiency
Farsi
Elementary proficiency
Organizations
African Enterprise Challenge Fund
Board member
2012 - 2014
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
Chair of Finance Committee, Chair of Program Committee, Chair of Investment Committee
2007 - 2012
Zimnat Insurance
Board member, Compensation committee
2001 - 2005
The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library (TEEAL)
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1995 - 2005
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💫 Funding opportunity: Next round of grant applications from GROWING JUSTICE are now open ⬇️ So grateful for the Advisory Board and Growing Justice…
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As I wait to get on the flight home, I’m taking a quick browse through the photos I took. How was this only 48 hours?!?! 😆 what an incredible time…
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Impactful visit!
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Still thinking about my trip to Rome where The Rockefeller Foundation joined the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty, an important initiative…
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About 32 years ago I attended a VERY impactful workshop, as part of a youth conference I was at. I still remember the feeling of the room, the…
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https://lnkd.in/eVUx3GUm The Rockefeller Foundation’s Food is Medicine (FIM) team is looking for a learning partner to help us monitor and evaluate…
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I am very grateful to The Rockefeller Foundation for sharing my personal story. I once dreamt of becoming one of Morocco’s first female fighter…
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Today, I had the honor of attending a landmark event in Rome, with RF President Rajiv J. Shah and Roy Steiner, Vice President Food, where we became…
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In Rome to join the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty! https://lnkd.in/eFg2\_JaW
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