Author: Overseas Development InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Occasional Paper
Author: Overseas Development InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Agricultural Administration Unit Occasional Paper
Author: Occasional Paper
Author: The Farming Systems Approach to Development and Appropriate Technology Generation
Author: David W. NormanPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251036440
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Evolution of Agricultural Services in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Venkatachalam VenkatesanPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821342596
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
This paper traces the evolution of World Bank support to agricultural services, particularly agricultural extension and research in Sub-Saharan Africa. It describes the Bank's experience with the implementation of national programs in agricultural extension and research and how these are evolving to face the problems of the future. The paper concludes that participation of the beneficiaries in the design and implementation of programs is critical and will ensure the programs' convergence towards rural development.
Participating in Development
Author: Alan BickerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134514042
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Development has too often failed to deliver on its promises to poor nations. The policies imposed from above by international agencies and state bodies have frequently not met the needs and aspirations of ordinary people. Development agencies have been searching for sometime for alternative approaches. One of those being pioneered is 'indigenous knowledge', which aims to make local voices heard more effectively. However while it is increasingly acknowledged in development contexts, it is yet to be validated and accepted by anthropologists. It is self-evident to any anthropologist that effective development assistance will benefit from some understanding of local knowledge and practices. This therefore puts anthropology and anthropologists at the centre of development. This volume focuses on two major issues that anthropology might profitably address. First of all how to define indigenous knowledge and who should define it as it currently lacks disciplinary coherence. Secondly once this definition is achieved what methodologies should be used in such an interdisciplinary research endeavour when it must meet the demands of development (cost- and time-effective, intelligible to non-experts) while not compromising anthropological expectations. The new opportunities and their methodological implications are addressed in the chapters of this book in a range of ethnographic and institutional contexts and demonstrate how wide-reaching and how crucially important this debate has become. Participating in Development is a thought provoking and challenge collection. Its authors both define and validate the role of the anthropologist in development as well of development in anthropology.
Participatory Approaches to the Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources
Author: Esbern Friis-HansenPublisher: Bioversity International
ISBN: 9290434449
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Serials Currently Received by the National Agricultural Library, 1974
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
Book Description
Practising Development
Author: Johan PottierPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113487930X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Throughout the 1980s there have been calls, often from development organizations of global repute, for the incorporation of social science perspectives into the design and management of sustainable development programmes. Practising Development is the first collection to offer first-hand critical assessments of the success and failures found within actual responses to these calls. By combining academic and practical experience from anthropology, development and aid organizations the contributors examine the processes of intervention, the methods by which this intervention can be assessed, and explain the socio-economic and political worlds within which intervention and development evolve.
Australian Overseas Aid
Author: Philip EldridgePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000478009
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Originally published in 1986, this book evaluated the review of the Australian Overseas Aid Program (the 1984 Jackson Report) and discusses the significance of Australia’s contribution to overseas aid for the future. The book focusses on the overall context of the Jackson report; discusses the geographical distribution of aid proposed by the report and examines aid administration in its more specific bureaucratic context and with broader questions of community participation in developmental processes.