Global agriculture and revisited resource-poor farmers -- Agricultural development towards modernization -- Process of adoption of agricultural innovations, changes of cultural practices and technical change among revisited resource poor farmers over almost four decades -- Global trends : threats or challenges to future food security and food safety -- Globalization and agribusiness -- Global food supply -- The challenge -- Towards an agricultural vision -- Agricultural technology and trends in agricultural research -- Agricultural research at the crossroads : reflections on future R&D -- International agricultural research through the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) -- Some issues in university teaching and future role of agricultural universities -- Development assistance and science aid to agricultural R&D development assistance in perspective : another problem area of trend setting.