Beyond Farmer First

Beyond Farmer First PDF Author: Ian Scoones
Publisher: Practical Action
ISBN: 9781853392504
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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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. 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.