Peasants, farmers and scientists: a chronicle of tropical agriculture science in the twentieth century
Contents: 1 What is tropical agronomy? 2 A tropical agronomist's education. 3 Old and new: the 1960s and 1970s. 4 Farmers are smarter than you think. 5 Forests, fallows and fields. 6 Farmer skills, an elusive property. 7 Mainly technology. 8 Follies and sanity of farming systems research. 9 The modelling sorcerers and their apprentices. 10 Donors, experts and consultants. 11 Can African farming be improved? Appendix 1. C.T. de Wit's analysis of plant competition. Appendix 2. Shifting cultivation and recurrent cropping - the figures.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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The Netherlands
2007
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| Subjects: | AGRICULTORES, PAISES EN DESARROLLO, DESARROLLO AGRICOLA, SOSTENIBILIDAD, DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE, AGRICULTURA, |
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| Summary: | Contents: 1 What is tropical agronomy? 2 A tropical agronomist's education. 3 Old and new: the 1960s and 1970s. 4 Farmers are smarter than you think. 5 Forests, fallows and fields. 6 Farmer skills, an elusive property. 7 Mainly technology. 8 Follies and sanity of farming systems research. 9 The modelling sorcerers and their apprentices. 10 Donors, experts and consultants. 11 Can African farming be improved? Appendix 1. C.T. de Wit's analysis of plant competition. Appendix 2. Shifting cultivation and recurrent cropping - the figures. |
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