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Norman Uphoff is director of the Cornell International
Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD)
as well as Professor of Government and director of the
College of Agriculture and Life Science's International
Agriculture Program at Cornell University. He has worked
on participatory rural development and local institutions
for 25 years, with most intensive involvement in participatory
irrigation management in Sri Lanka and Nepal. He has
worked in Ghana over many years and helped design a
participatory watershed management project (SCOR) for
USAID and IIMI in Sri Lanka.
He is currently coordinating CIIFAD's collaborative
interdisciplinary programs in Indonesia and Madagascar,
both of which deal with protected area management. Uphoff
did his PhD in political science at the University of
California, Berkeley. He has written (co-authored) or
edited (co-edited) a dozen books, his favorite being
Learning from Gal Oya: Possibilities for Participatory
Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science, republished
last year.
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Updated: June 28, 2002
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