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Beyond Farmer First - Rural peoples knowledge, agricultural research and extension practice (Paperback)
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Beyond Farmer First - Rural peoples knowledge, agricultural research and extension practice (Paperback)
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Loot Price R354
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The interest and support that the "Farmer First" philosophy has
received has led to a virtual revolution in the agricultural
sciences. While many hail this populist perspective as a step in
the right direction, some have argued that it fails to capture the
complex cultural, social and political dimensions of knowledge
creation, innovation, transmission and application within rural
societies and scientific organizations. Because they do not
adequately address these fundamental issues of power and knowledge,
critics charge that some "Farmer First" initiatives encounter many
of the same problems as conventional transfer of technology
strategies.;The purpose of "Beyond Farmer First" 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. As Robert Chambers notes in his foreword, the concerns of
"Farmer First" with performance and "Beyond Farmer First" with
process indicate that a radical rethinking of knowledge, power and
agricultural science is well under way.;This book consists of some
36 contributions representing the disciplines of agronomy,
agricultural science, anthropology, ecology, entomology, forestry,
geography, management science, pedagogy, sociology and others.
Contributors are drawn from academia, local NGOs and national and
international research and development agencies, with detailed case
material from Africa, Australia, Central and South America and
Europe.
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