Agronomy for Development (eBook, PDF)

The Politics of Knowledge in Agricultural Research
Redaktion: Sumberg, James

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Produktbeschreibung

Over the last decade there has been renewed interest in food security and the state of the global food system. Population growth, climate change and food price spikes have combined to focus new attention on the technologies and institutions that underpin the production and consumption of food that is varied, nutritious and safe.

Knowledge politics within development-oriented agronomy set the stage for some agricultural development to be favoured over others, with very real implications for the food security and wellbeing of many millions of people. Agronomy for Development demonstrates how the analysis of knowledge politics can shed valuable new light on current debates about agricultural development and food security. Using bio-physical and social sciences perspectives to address the political economy of the production and use of knowledge in development, this edited collection reflects on the changing politics of knowledge within the field of agronomy and the ways in which these politics feed and reflect the interests of a broad set of actors.

This book is aimed at professions working in agricultural research as well as students and practitioners of agricultural, rural and international development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315284040
• Artikelnr.: 48799388

Autorenporträt

James Sumberg is Research Fellow in the Rural Futures research cluster at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) and a member of the STEPS Centre, University of Sussex, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Knowledge politics in development-oriented agronomy (Jens Andersson,
James Sumberg, John Thompson and Ken Giller) 2. 'Agents without
principals': configuration and outcomes of agenda setting for public
agricultural research in Africa (George Okongo and Laurens Klerkx) 3.
Contested agronomy and the movement of agricultural technology: The
situating and desituating of technological packages (Dominic Glover,
Jean-Philippe Venot and Harro Maat) 4. Crops in context: negotiating
traditional and formal institutions in local seed systems of maize and
sorghum (Ola T. Westengen) 5. GM crops 'for Africa': examining contestation
and knowledge politics in the Kenyan biosafety debate (Stephen Whitfield)
6. The sweet smell of 'success': contesting biofortification strategies to
address malnutrition in Tanzania (Sheila Rao and Chris Huggins) 7. Systems
research in the CGIAR as a multi-dimensional arena of struggle (Cees
Leeuwis) 8. When the solution became a problem: strategies in the reform of
agricultural extension in Uganda (Patience B. Rwamigisa, Paul Kibwika,
Frank B. Matsiko, Margaret N. Mangheni and Regina Birner) 9. One step
forward, two steps back in farmer knowledge exchange: 'scaling-up' as
Fordist replication in drag (William G. Moseley) 10. South-South
cooperation, third world solidarity and technocentric development: China
and Brazil in Africa (Kojo Amanor) 11. Yields of dreams: marching west and
the politics of scientific knowledge in the Brazilian Agricultural Research
Corporation (Embrapa) (Ryan Nehring) 12. Beyond contested agronomy (Ken
Giller, Jens Andersson, John Thompson and James Sumberg)