Agronomy for development : the politics of knowledge in agricultural research /

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Other Authors: Sumberg, J. E. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Series:Pathways to sustainability
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Table of Contents:
  • chapter 1 Knowledge politics in development-oriented agronomy / Jens A. Andersson
  • chapter 2 On the movement of agricultural technologies: packaging, unpacking and situated reconfiguration / Dominic Glover
  • chapter 3 South–South cooperation and agribusiness contestations in irrigated rice: China and Brazil in Ghana / Kojo Amanor
  • chapter 4 GM crops ‘for Africa’: contestation and knowledge politics in the Kenyan biosafety debate / Stephen Whitfield
  • chapter 5 Systems research in the CGIAR as an arena of struggle: competing discourses on the embedding of research in development / Cees Leeuwis
  • chapter 6 One step forward, two steps back in farmer knowledge exchange: ‘scaling up’ as Fordist replication in drag / William G. Moseley
  • chapter 7 When the solution became a problem: strategies in the reform of agricultural extension in Uganda / Patience B. Rwamigisa
  • chapter 8 Sweet ‘success’: contesting biofortification strategies to address malnutrition in Tanzania / Sheila Rao
  • chapter 9 Crops in context: negotiating traditional and formal seed institutions / Ola T. Westengen
  • chapter 10 Laws of the field: rights and justice in development-oriented agronomy / James A. Fraser
  • chapter 11 A golden age for agronomy? / Ken E. Giller.