The trouble with you economists! Part 3
Channel: International Rice Research Institute
Date: 08/01/2010

Read "Trouble with you economists" in Rice Today: http://fr.scribd.com/doc/94511216/RT-Vol-9-No-1-Pioneer-interviews

Retired economists Randy Barker and Robert Herdt reminisce about their days at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI; http://irri.org) and reflect on the evolution of research in the social sciences at the Institute.

Dr. Barker was an IRRI agricultural economist and head, Economics Department, 1966-78; acting head, IRRI Social Sciences Division, 2007-08, and Dr. Herdt was IRRI economist, 1973-83, head of
Economics Department, 1978-83; later director, agricultural sciences, and vice president, The Rockefeller Foundation.

In this clip, they discuss why IRRI's second director general, Ralph Cummings Sr., had such a short stay at IRRI, how agricultural engineers and economists had similar goals, and determing why or why not farmers were not adopting the new rice varieties.