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OverviewThe purpose of this book is to reveal how agricultural research and extension, far from being discrete, rational acts, are in fact part of a process of coming to terms with conflicting interests and viewpoints, a process in which choices are made, alliances formed, exclusions effected, and worldviews imposed. By going beyond Farmer First, this theoretically informed perspective describes agricultural development as what it is: a highly ideological and political process. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ian Scoones , John Thompson , Robert ChambersPublisher: ITDG Publishing Imprint: ITDG Publishing Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.550kg ISBN: 9781853392375ISBN 10: 1853392375 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 15 December 1994 Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPart 1 Theoretical reflections on knowledge, power and practice: introduction; knowledge, power and agriculture - towards a theoretical understanding, I. Scoones and J. Thompson; knowledge, consciousness and prejudice - adaptive agricultural research in Zambia, M. Drinkwater; the interweaving of knowledge and power in development interfaces, N. Long and M. Villareal; indigenous management and the management of indigenous knowledge, D. Marsden; the technicians only believe in science and cannot read the sky - the cultural dimension of the knowledge conflict in the Andes, M.A. Salas; trees, people and communities in Zimbabwe's communal lands, F. Matose and B. Mukamuri; declarations of difference, J. Fairhead and M. Leach; indigenous soil characterization in Northern Zambia, P. Sikana; agricultural discourses - farmer experimentation and agricultural extension in Rwanda, J. Pottier; composing rural livelihoods - from farming systems to food systems, A.J. Bebbington. Part 2 Methodological innovations, applications and challenges: introduction; acknowledging process - challenges for agricultural research and extension methodology, A. Cornwall et al; participatory watershed management in India - the experience of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, P. Shah; challenges in the collection and use of information on livelihood strategies and natural resource management, K. Schoonmaker Freudenberger; developing interaction and understanding - RRA and farmer research groups in Zambia, M. Drinkwater; quality control, method transfer and training, J. Jiggins; the ethics of documenting rural people's knowledge - investigating milk marketing among Fulani women in Nigeria, A. Waters-Bayer; stimulating farmer experiments in non-chemical pest control in Central America, J. Bentley; encouraging knowledge exchange - integrated pest management in Indonesia, Y. Winarto; learning by improvization - farmers' experimentation in Mali, A. Stolzenbach; experimenting farmers in Northern Ghana, D. Millar; local knowledge formation and validation - the case of rice production in Central Sierra Leone, P. Richards; participatory methods and political processes - linking grassroots actions and policy-making for sustainable development in Latin America, L.A. Thrupp et al. Part 3 Transforming institutions and changing policies: introduction; tiwards a learning paradigm - new professionalism and institutions for agriculture, J.N. Pretty and R. Chambers; from research to innovation - getting the most from interaction with NGOs, J. Farrington and A.J. Bebbington. (Part contents).ReviewsAuthor InformationIan Scoones is co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex and joint convenor of the IDS-hosted Future Agricultures Consortium. He is an agricultural ecologist whose interdisciplinary research links the natural and social sciences. John Thompson is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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