Reluctant Partners? Non-Governmental Organizations, the State and Sustainable Agricultural Development (Non-Governmental Organizations series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415088437 ISBN 13: 9780415088435

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

Reluctant Partners? combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGOs' work in agriculture with wider considerations of their relations with the State and their contribution to democratic pluralism. This overview volume for the Non-Governmental Organizations series contextualizes and synthesizes the case study material in the three regional volumes on Africa, Asia and Latin America, where over sixty specially commissioned case studies of farmer-participatory approaches to agricultural innovation are presented.
Specific questions are raised. How good/bad are NGOs at promoting technological innovation and addressing contraints to change in peasant culture? How effective are NGOs at strengthening local organizations? How do/will donor pressures influence NGOs and their links to the State?

About this title

About the Author:

John Farrington, Anthony Bebbington, and Kate Wellard are all Research Fellows at the Overseas Development Institute. David J. Lewis is Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute, and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath.

Review:

"'This is the first major study of its kind, a landmark in our understanding of new institutional potential in agricultural development. Its conclusions deserve to be studied by all who are concerned with agricultural development in the South, whether as policy makers, researchers, practitioners or teachers.."
-Robert Chambers
." . . sheds much light on NGOs' potentials and limitations in the agricultural sector. Since most of the world's poor continue to depend on agriculture for their sustenance, this examination is especially welcome."
-Norman Uphoff, Cornell University

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0415088437
• ISBN 13: 9780415088435
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Bebbington Anthony, Farrington John, Lewis David J., Wellard Kate