Norman Uphoff

About

Norman Uphoff is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Government at Cornell University. His work focuses on strengthening rural local institution capabilities for sustainable livelihoods and equitable development, with particular attention to civil society contributions to food and nutrition security. Uphoff has contributed to understanding social capital, irrigation management, and community empowerment, emphasizing the importance of civil society and public sector institutions in poverty reduction. His research includes the System of Rice Intensification (SRI), which has implications for agriculture and climate policy, and he has published extensively on topics related to social capital, community action, and sustainable development.

Research topics

• Agronomy
• Business
• Environmental science
• Agroforestry
• Biology

Selected publications

• Benefits to Plant Health and Productivity From Enhancing Plant Microbial Symbionts

  Frontiers in Plant Science · 2021-04-12 · 238 citations

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  Plants exist in close association with uncountable numbers of microorganisms around, on, and within them. Some of these endophytically colonize plant roots. The colonization of roots by certain symbiotic strains of plant-associated bacteria and fungi results in these plants performing better than plants whose roots are colonized by only the wild populations of microbes. We consider here crop plants whose roots are inhabited by introduced organisms, referring to them as Enhanced Plant Holobionts…

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• Food security and climate-smart agriculture in the lower Mekong basin of Southeast Asia: evaluating impacts of system of rice intensification with special reference to rainfed agriculture

  International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability · 2021-01-11 · 67 citations

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  Given the challenges presented by climate change, water shortages, and land degradation, sustainable agriculture approaches that increase farming systems’ yield and resilience are required more than eve, particularly in rainfed areas.The findings reported here derive from a regional collaborative project (http://www.sri-lmb.ait.asia/). More than 15,000 farmers participated in the field trials located in 33 districts of 11 provinces in the Lower-Mekong-Basin (LMB). The number of experiments condu…

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• Microbial Contributions for Rice Production: From Conventional Crop Management to the Use of ‘Omics’ Technologies

  International Journal of Molecular Sciences · 2022-01-10 · 64 citations

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  Rice, the main staple food for about half of the world's population, has had the growth of its production stagnate in the last two decades. One of the ways to further improve rice production is to enhance the associations between rice plants and the microbiome that exists around, on, and inside the plant. This article reviews recent developments in understanding how microorganisms exert positive influences on plant growth, production, and health, focusing particularly on rice. A variety of micro…

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• How agroecological rice intensification can assist in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals

  International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability · 2021-05-09 · 39 citations

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  The UN Development Program has set forth a roster of sustainable development goals (SDGs) for eradicating hunger and poverty with other consequential targets also to be achieved by 2030. Agroecological production strategies can help accomplish about half of these goals, especially SDG #2 (zero hunger) and SDG #12 (action for climate), utilizing biological processes and potentials that already exist in crop plants and in the soil systems they grow in. These potentials are not mobilized by chemica…

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• Biological Approaches to Regenerative Soil Systems

  2023-10-27 · 31 citations

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  Agriculture in the 21st century will need considerable modification to remain both productive and sustainable. Greater production is needed to meet the needs of our still-growing populations and to combat hunger and poverty. Declines in soil health and the pollution of water sources are making many of our production systems less tenable. These adverse trends are exacerbated more and more by the impacts of climate change. There are, fortunately, alternative methods available for agricultural prac…

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Frequent coauthors

• Febri Doni

  25 shared

• A. K. Thakur

  17 shared

• Min Huang

  Wuhan University of Technology

  16 shared

• Amir Kassam

  University of Reading

  15 shared

• Ram B. Khadka

  Nepal Agricultural Research Council

  14 shared

• Nurul Shamsinah Mohd Suhaimi

  10 shared

• Muhamad Shakirin Mispan

  10 shared

• Erika Styger

  10 shared

Education

• PhD, Political Science

  University of California Berkeley

  1970

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