Agriculture Reference
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CHAPTER 6
LESSONS LEARNED
R.P. ROETTER
1
, M. KUIPER
2
, H. VAN KEULEN
3, 4
,
J. VERHAGEN
4
AND G. MEIJERINK
2
1
Soil Science Centre, Alterra, Wageningen UR
e-mail: reimund.roetter@wur.nl
2
International Trade and Development, Agricultural Economics Research Institute,
Wageningen UR
3
Plant Production Systems Group, Plant Sciences, Wageningen University,
4
Plant Research International, Wageningen UR
BACKGROUND
The research programme International Cooperation of the Agricultural Research
Department (DLO-IC) of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food
Quality (LNV) was founded in 1998 with the aim to support agricultural and
environmental research for development and strengthen North-South partnerships.
The programme that embraced contributions from all five science groups of
Wageningen University and Research centre (Wageningen UR) consisted of two
phases (1998-2001 and 2002-2005). Within those eight years, about 70 multi-annual
collaborative North-South projects were carried out under the umbrella of DLO-IC,
of which about half were related to Rural Development and Sustainable Agriculture
(RDSA). The remaining half was classified in the themes global food chains, agro-
biodiversity, nature management, integrated water management and enabling
policies (North-South Centre 2004).
The objective of this chapter is to summarize the results from the scientific,
capacity-building and policy-oriented activities, draw major lessons and outline the
way ahead on the basis of the experiences and new developments as outlined in
previous chapters, and emerging opportunities. We will first reflect on ideas that
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