na INLIS000000000000578 20240730084816 ta 240730 g 0 eng 0-85199-405-9 0010-0124000307 631:303.02 631:303.02 COL a Collinson, M. A History of Farming Systems Research / M. Collinson - Wallingford, Oxon OX10 8DE, UK : Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations, 1999 xii, 421 hlm ; 24,5 cm As President of the Association for Farming Systems Research and Extension (AFSRE-now the International Farming Systems Association (IFSA)) when the book was commissioned, I am delighted to contribute a foreword to this his- tory of farming systems research (FSR) and its applications, seeing it as an opportunity to offer a personal account of my own love affair with FSR. It mirrors, in many respects, the sequence of the text itself a retrospective on my own baptism; a focus on what are, for me. key aspects of FSR; the progress made and challenges remaining; and my own perceptions of some key lessons learned Agriculture systems--Research History Rak Umum 00000000668