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

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

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Book Description
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.

About the Author
Ian Scoones is an agricultural ecologist with experience largely from Southern Africa. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex..

Beyond Farmer First: Rural Peoples Knowledge, Agricultural Research and Extension Practice,Ian Scoones,ITDG Publishing,1853392502,Agriculture - General,Technology & Industrial Arts

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