Beyond Farmer First: Rural peoples knowledge, agricultural research and extension practice - Softcover

Scoones, Ian; Thompson, John

 
9781853392504: Beyond Farmer First: Rural peoples knowledge, agricultural research and extension practice

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. 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 of Beyond Farmer First with process, indicate that a radical rethinking of knowledge, power and agricultural science is well under way.

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About the Authors

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 by original training whose interdisciplinary research links the natural and social sciences. His most recent book is Avian Influenza: Science, Policy and Politics.

John Thompson is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex.

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Publisher: Practical Action, 1994
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