"The new millennium has witnessed profound changes to the way donor countries are approaching international development - with the emphasis now on collaborative, people-centred development. This timely book explores how research and research culture need to adapt to mesh with this new reality....

In May, 2000 the Co-operative Research Centre for Sustainable Rice Production (henceforthcalled the Rice CRC) commissioned Professor John Spriggs and Mr Tony Dunn from CharlesSturt University to write a paper called Scoping out a Socio-economic Research Agenda. InJune 2000, Associate Professor...