Beyond Farmer First: Rural People’s Knowledge, Agricultural Research and Extension Practice

<p dir="ltr">The purpose of this book is to reveal how agricultural research and extension, far from being discrete, rational acts, are in fact part of a process of coming to terms with conflicting interests and viewpoints. By going beyond Farmer First, this theoretically informed perspective describes agricultural development as what it is: a highly ideological and political process. As Robert Chambers notes in his foreword, the concerns of Farmer First with performance and of Beyond Farmer First with process, indicate that a radical rethinking of knowledge, power and agricultural science is well under way.</p><p dir="ltr">This publication is available to <a href="https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/149/read?come_from=show" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Read</a> and to <a href="https://practicalactionpublishing.com/book/149/download?type=download" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Download</a> as an eBook.</p>