Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Reversals, Institutions and Change 95 open interviews and iterative group conversations (Floquet, 1989); ethnohistory and ethno ...

96 Participatory Processes providing farmers with varied genetic materials to test and appraise (Ashby et al, 1987; Norman et a ...

Reversals, Institutions and Change 97 Farmers’ experiments are, then, encouraged and supported by outsiders. This is close to Bi ...

98 Participatory Processes it comes more from diversifying enterprises and multiplying linkages. Green Revo- lution agriculture ...

Reversals, Institutions and Change 99 hassle-free and adequate access to means for travel, it is difficult for them to work regu ...

100 Participatory Processes (iii) Incentives. As with any new paradigm, professionals who innovate in the farmer- first mode ris ...

Reversals, Institutions and Change 101 The strongest incentive, though, is professional and personal satisfaction. Those who mak ...

102 Participatory Processes manners and of that respect for and interest in people and what they have to show and say which make ...

Reversals, Institutions and Change 103 bastions of conservatism, doggedly reproducing narrow professionalism in their students. ...

104 Participatory Processes projects, NGOs and producers’ organizations have been ‘intermediate users’ of technology, exercising ...

Reversals, Institutions and Change 105 manoeuvre. Some steps can be taken; a start can almost always be made. Even if the start ...

106 Participatory Processes Finally, for professionals to innovate by working in the farmer-first mode demands vision and leader ...

Reversals, Institutions and Change 107 full as Experimenting cultivators: A methodology for adaptive agricultural research. ODI ...

108 Participatory Processes Korten D C. 1980. Community organisation and rural development: A learning process approach. Public ...

7 Participatory Learning for Sustainable Agriculture Jules Pretty Recent Impacts of Sustainable Agriculture During the past 50 y ...

110 Participatory Processes But these are not the only sites for successful sustainable agriculture. In the high- input and gene ...

Participatory Learning for Sustainable Agriculture 111 resource base; to others, sustainability simply implies continuing to gro ...

112 Participatory Processes two years of age, when they have already reached heights of 4–5 metres. Other hedges are pruned too ...

Participatory Learning for Sustainable Agriculture 113 then making predictions about the world based on interpretations of these ...

114 Participatory Processes Both cases illustrate that science is not the neat, objective collection of facts about nature and i ...