Contested agronomy
Subtitle: agricultural research in a changing world
By: [edited] by James Sumberg and John Thompson
Publisher: Earthscan; Routledge; Brand: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780415698061; 9780415507141; 9780203125434
Subjects: Social aspects; Agriculture and state; Political aspects; Agriculture; Agronomy; Research
Table of contents: title: Contested agronomy: agricultural research in a changing world / James Sumberg, John Thompson and Philip Woodhouse; title: On heretics and God's blanket salesmen: contested claims for conservation agriculture and the politics of its promotion in African smallholder farming / Jens A. Andersson and Ken E. Giller; title: Conservation agriculture based technologies and the political economy: lessons from South Asia / Olaf Erenstein; title: Anthropogenic dark earths and Africa: a political agronomy of research disjunctures / James Fairhead, Melissa Leach and Kojo Amanor; title: Contestation as continuity? Biofortification research and the CGIAR / Sally Brooks and Sarah E. Johnson-Beebout; title: Water in African agronomy / Philip Woodhouse; title: Understanding agricultural intensification on a forest frontier in Madagascar: elements for a Malthusian/Boserupian synthesis / Jacques Pollini; title: Alternative configurations of agronomic experimentation / Harro Maat and Dominic Glover; title: "This field is our church": the social and agronomic challenges of knowledge generation in a participatory soil fertility management project / Joshua Ramisch; title: Contesting agronomy through dissent: experiences from India / C. Shambu Prasad ... [et al.]; title: Success making and success stories: agronomic research in the spotlight / James Sumberg ... [et al.]; title: Nullius in verba: contestation, pathways and political agronomy / John Thompson and James Sumberg.