Issues in Developing and Implementing a Farming Systems Research Program

Excerpts: Farming Systems Research, or FSR, is the term coined by its practitioners to describe a particular orientation in devising and disseminating improved technologies for low resource agriculture, particularly in developing countries. In this paper the author analyzes important issues in FSR methodology and in the organization and implementation of FSR programs. In the final section he examines questions on the applicability of FSR to small farm research in the United States.