Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. International Institute for Environment and Development. Sustainable Agriculture Programme.

Description

1. 4 v. : ill., maps; 29 cm.

Series statement

1. IIED research series ; v. 1, no. 1-4

Subject

1. Appropriate technology > Developing countries
2. Sustainable agriculture > Developing countries
3. Traditional farming > Developing countries
4. Technology transfer > Developing countries
5. Agricultural extension work > Developing countries
6. Agriculture > Social aspects > Developing countries

Contents

1. No. 1. Overview papers: Beyond farmer first / Ian Scoones and John Thompson -- Acknowledging process / Andrea Cornwall, Irene Guijt and Alice Welbourn -- Towards a learning paradigm / Jules N. Pretty and Robert Chambers -- No. 2. Africa papers: Ethnoveterinary knowledge among pastoralists in eastern Sudan and Eritrea / Zeremariam Fre -- Rural people's knowledge and extension practice / Frank Matose and Billy Mukamuri -- Relevance of rural people's knowledge for re-orienting extension, research and training / David Millar -- Indigenous soil characterisation and farmer participation in northern Zambia / Patrick Sikana.
2. No. 3. Asia papers: Construction and application of rural people's knowledge / Samuel Go and Alicia Go -- Folk agronomy in the Himalayas / N.S. Jodha and Tej Partap -- Participatory watershed management programmes in India / Parmesh Shah -- Farmers' agroecological knowledge construction / Yunita T. Winarto -- No. 4. Latin America papers: Indigenous people's knowledge and informal agricultural extension and research in southern Amazonia / Tadeu Caldas -- Wheat production among the Mapuche people of southern Chile / Miguel Diaz Gacitúa and Octavio Sotomayor -- Cultural dimension of the knowledge conflict in the Andes / Maria A. Salas -- Research and extension practice and rural people's agroforestry knowledge in Ecuadorian Amazonia / Jorge E. Uquillas.

Call number

1. Sc F 96-123

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Title

1. Rural people's knowledge : agricultural research and extension practice.

Imprint

1. London : Sustainable Agriculture Programme of the International Institute for Environment and Development, 1993.

Series

1. IIED research series ; v. 1, no. 1-4

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Local note

1. Schomburg Center has No. 2.

Added author

1. International Institute for Environment and Development. Sustainable Agriculture Programme.

Research call number

1. Sc F 96-123