Interdisciplinary agricultural research in Canada

The activities and accomplishments of agricultural economists conducting in terdisciplinary research in association with other agricultural scientists in Canada are reviewed and evaluated. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada inst ituted an interdisciplinary research program with the placement of agricult ural economists at Research Centres in the early 1970s. University- and gov ernment-employed agricultural economists have produced a large number of im portant studies for the benefit of the agricultural industry in Canada. How ever, less than 3% of the articles published in this journal since its ince ption in 1952 report on interdisciplinary research. Interdisciplinary resea rch in agriculture has been hampered by organizational weaknesses and inher ent difficulties associated with conducting this type of research.