Beyond Farmer First: Rural Peoples Knowledge, Agricultural Research and Extension Practice - Couverture souple

Scoones, Ian; Thompson, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853392502 ISBN 13 : 9781853392504

Editeur : Practical Action Publishing, 1994

Synopsis

The 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. 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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Ian 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Practical Action Publishing
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1853392502
• ISBN 13: 9781853392504
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible