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

ISBN-13: 9781853392504 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 320 str.

John Thompson; Ian Scoones; Robert Chambers

Opis

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.