Farmer First Revisited
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Farmer First Revisited
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Author : Ian Scoones
language : en
Publisher: Practical Action Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Farmer First Revisited written by Ian Scoones and has been published by Practical Action Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Political Science categories.
Agriculture is an urgent global priority and farmers find themselves in the front line of some of the world's most pressing issues- climate change, globalization and food security. Twenty years ago, the Farmer First workshop held at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, launched a movement to encourage farmer participation in agricultural research and development (R & D), responding to farmers' needs in complex, diverse, risk-prone environments, and promoting sustainable livelihoods and agriculture. Since that time, methodological, institutional and policy experiments have unfolded around the world. Farmer First Revisited returns to the debates about farmer participation in agricultural R & D and looks to the future.The book presents a range of experiences that highlight the importance of going beyond a focus on the farm to a wider innovation system, including market interactions as well as the wider institutional and policy environment. If, however, farmers are really to be put first, a politics of demand is required in order to shape the direction of these innovative systems.
Farmer First Revisited
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language : en
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Release Date : 2009
Farmer First Revisited written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Climate change,food sedurity and globalisation categories.
Revolutionizing Development
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Author : Andrea Cornwall
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-03-28
Revolutionizing Development written by Andrea Cornwall and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-28 with Business & Economics categories.
This book tells the story of development studies in practice over the last fifty years through the work of one remarkable individual, Robert Chambers. His work has taken him from being a colonial officer in Kenya through training and managing large rural development projects to a fundamental critique of top-down development and the championing of participatory approaches. The contributors eloquently demonstrate how he has been at the centre of major shifts in development thinking and practice over this period, popularising terms that are now at the centre of the development lexicon such as vulnerability, multi-dimensional poverty, sustainable livelihoods and 'farmer first'. Robert Chambers played a major role in the massive growth in participatory approaches to development, and particularly the application of participatory methods in development research and appraisal. This has led to fundamental challenges to development practice, ranging from approaches to monitoring and evaluation to institutional learning and professional training. There is probably no-one who has had more influence on approaches to development in the past decades. Revolutionizing Development offers a unique overview of these contributions in thirty-two concise chapters from authors who have been intimately involved as collaborators, critics and colleagues of Robert Chambers.
Innovation For Development
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Author : Devaux, A.
language : en
Publisher: International Potato Center
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Innovation For Development written by Devaux, A. and has been published by International Potato Center this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with categories.
The Reproach Of Hunger
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Author : David Rieff
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2015-10-06
The Reproach Of Hunger written by David Rieff and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Social Science categories.
In 2000 the world's leaders and experts agreed that the eradication of hunger was the essential task for the new millennium. Yet in the last decade the price of wheat, soya and rice have spiraled, seen by many as the cause of widening poverty gap and political unrest from the Arab Spring to Latin America. This food crisis has condemned the bottom billion of the world's population who live on less than $1 a day to a state of constant hunger. In The Reproach of Hunger leading expert on humanitarian aid and development, David Rieff, goes in search of the causes of this food security crisis, as well as the failures to respond to the disaster. In addition to the failures to address climate change, poor governance and misguided optimism, Rieff cautions against the increased privatization of aid, with such organization as the Gates Foundation spending more that the WHO on food relief. The invention of the celebrity campaigner - from Bono to Jeffrey Sachs - whose business-led solutions have robbed development of its political urgency. The hope that the crisis of food scarcity of food production can be solved by a technological innovation. In response Rieff demands that we rethink the fundamental causes of the world's grotesque inequalities and see the issue as a political challenge we are all failing to confront.
Rice Biofortification
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Author : Sally Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Earthscan
Release Date : 2010
Rice Biofortification written by Sally Brooks and has been published by Earthscan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Nature categories.
First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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language : en
Publisher: International Potato Center
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New Philanthropy And Social Justice
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Author : Behrooz Morvaridi
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2016-07-20
New Philanthropy And Social Justice written by Behrooz Morvaridi and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-20 with Political Science categories.
Over the past twenty years, wealthy individuals and private corporations have become increasingly involved in philanthropy, often by establishing foundations targeted at helping to reduce poverty, disease, and other social problems. But as the essays in this interdisciplinary volume show, this new philanthropy does not provide a long-term solution, because it fails to tackle social injustice or the structural reasons for inequality. Placing this discussion in a global context, this far-reaching book questions the political and ideological reasons why rich individuals and companies engage in poverty reduction through philanthropy and suggests that the new philanthropy and social justice debate extends far beyond national boundaries.
Innovation For Inclusive Value Chain Development
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Author : Devaux, André
language : en
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Release Date : 2016-10-21
Innovation For Inclusive Value Chain Development written by Devaux, André and has been published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-21 with Political Science categories.
Governments, nongovernmental organizations, donors, and the private sector have increasingly embraced value-chain development (VCD) for stimulating economic growth and combating rural poverty. Innovation for Inclusive Value-Chain Development: Successes and Challenges helps to fill the current gap in systematic knowledge about how well VCD has performed, related trade-offs or undesired effects, and which combinations of VCD elements are most likely to reduce poverty and deliver on overall development goals. This book uses case studies to examine a range of VCD experiences. Approaching the subject from various angles, it looks at new linkages to markets and the role of farmer organizations and contract farming in raising productivity and access to markets, the minimum assets requirement to participate in VCD, the role of multi-stakeholder platforms in VCD, and how to measure and identify successful VCD interventions. The book also explores the challenges livestock-dependent people face; how urbanization and advancing technologies affect linkages; ways to increase gender inclusion and economic growth; and the different roles various types of platforms play in VCD.
Why We Eat How We Eat
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Author : Emma-Jayne Abbots
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-11
Why We Eat How We Eat written by Emma-Jayne Abbots and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-11 with Science categories.
Why We Eat, How We Eat maps new terrains in thinking about relations between bodies and foods. With the central premise that food is both symbolic and material, the volume explores the intersections of current critical debates regarding how individuals eat and why they eat. Through a wide-ranging series of case studies it examines how foods and bodies both haphazardly encounter, and actively engage with, one another in ways that are simultaneously material, social, and political. The aim and uniqueness of this volume is therefore the creation of a multidisciplinary dialogue through which to produce new understandings of these encounters that may be invisible to more established paradigms. In so doing, Why We Eat, How We Eat concomitantly employs eating as a tool - a novel way of looking - while also drawing attention to the term 'eating' itself, and to the multiple ways in which it can be constituted. The volume asks what eating is - what it performs and silences, what it produces and destroys, and what it makes present and absent. It thereby traces the webs of relations and multiple scales in which eating bodies are entangled; in diverse and innovative ways, contributors demonstrate that eating draws into relationships people, places and objects that may never tangibly meet, and show how these relations are made and unmade with every mouthful. By illuminating these contemporary encounters, Why We Eat, How We Eat offers an empirically grounded richness that extends previous approaches to foods and bodies.