【学术漫谈43】农政问题的比较研究Comparative Research on Agrarian Issues in Sierra Leone

特邀学人：保罗·理查兹，荷兰瓦赫宁根大学农村社会学系教授，英国伦敦大学学院人类学教授
主持人：叶敬忠 教授
语言：英语
时间：2016年12月16日（周五）15：30—17：30
地点：中国农业大学西校区（西校区）人文与发展学院CIAD008室
北京·海淀区·圆明园西路2号，100193
联系人：潘璐，电话：18701331969，邮箱：ledapan@gmail.com
Speaker: Paul Richards, Professor at Department of Rural Sociology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and Professor of Anthropology, University College London, UK
Moderator: Ye Jingzhong
Language: English
Time: 15:00 – 17:30, Friday 16 December 2016
Venue: Room 008, CIAD, West Campus
Contact: Pan Lu, Tel: 18701331969, Email: ledapan@gmail.com
特邀学人简介：
　　生于1945年。著名的人类学评论家和农业技术与非洲农耕系统研究者。他于上世纪60年代分别获英国伦敦大学学士与硕士学位，后于1977年获该校人文地理学博士学位。现为荷兰瓦赫宁根大学农村社会学系技术与农政发展方向教授，英国伦敦大学学院人类学教授。此前曾先后就职于尼日利亚伊巴丹大学、英国伦敦大学亚非学院以及美国加州大学洛杉矶分校。他还担任过美国加州大学洛杉矶分校人类学系系主任，创设了荷兰瓦赫宁根大学生物技术社会研究小组。其研究兴趣包括：经济决策中的文化因素，森林保护中的地方参与，农民对非洲大米基因资源的管理，战争人类学与后冲突社会，埃博拉病毒的社区回应等。他在非洲的尼日利亚西部、塞拉利昂东部和南部、利比里亚西部开展了持续长达四十多年的实地研究。其作品包括：《本土农业革命》（1985）、《应对饥饿》（1986）和《保卫雨林》（1996）等。
　　Born in 1945, Professor Richards is a famous anthropological commentator and researcher on agricultural technology and African farming systems. He got his Bachelor and Master’s degree from London University during the 1960s, and then got his PhD in human geography from the same university in 1977. He is currently an emeritus professor of technology and agrarian development at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. He was formerly a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University College London for many years, and previously taught anthropology and geography, at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London, the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He became head of the Department of Anthropology at UCLA (in 1990) and Professor of Anthropology (1992). And then he set up a new chair group in social studies of biotechnology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.  His research interests include: cultural factors in economic decision making; local participation in forest conservation; farmer management of genetic resources, African Rice; anthropology of war, post-conflict society; community responses to Ebola Virus Disease. He has conducted his fieldworks in western Nigeria and southern and eastern Sierra Leone, and western Liberia from 1977 to present. His publications include Indigenous Agricultural Revolution (1985), Coping with hunger (1986), Fighting for the Rain Forest (1996), etc.