ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests some reasons why the issues have been disregarded and deals with recommending some new positive steps to more effectively incorporate moral, ethical, and social justice issues into international agricultural research. The real beginnings of the international agricultural research system can be traced to the joint program on food crops initiated in 1943 between the Rockefeller Foundation and the Mexican government. Until the 1960s, most social scientists shared the same goals and assumptions of biological agricultural scientists. Most believed that "modernization" and technology transfer were necessary for the Third World countries to experience a "take-off" into sustained growth. Social scientists concentrated their efforts on such research agendas as the diffusion of innovations. A significant part of the problem relates to several basic elements of the scientific belief system. These beliefs, combined with other institutional and social policies that have ignored the environmental and human relations aspects of development, have created many of the existing problems.
