7 pages, via online journal, Despite large investments in research to modernize African agriculture, enabling it to fulfil its potential, traditional agriculture still predominates. To many, the lack of adoption of knowledge generated through agricultural research is due either to the inexplicable functioning of the farmer's decision-making process or to a set of issues so complex that it is not clear how they could ever be overcome. This paper reviews a project in Sub-Saharan Africa in which bean pest management became a tool through which communities were empowered to address a wide range of development issues. This paper suggests that what needs to be altered substantially is the way scientists view and interact with the poor.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C28079
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Pages 95-99 in Martin W. Bauer and Massimiano Bucchi (eds.), Journalism, science and society: science communication between news and public relations. Routledge, New York, New York. 286 pages., Examines the uneasy relationship between science and journalism, including influences on coverage of issues such as environment and conservation.
International: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D09728
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188 pages, Explores options for scientists to consider in making their own judgments about how they would like to position themselves in relation to policy and politics.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26736
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Pages 173-196 in Mary E. Pettenger (ed.), The social constructioin of climate change: power, knowledge, norms, discourses. Ashgate Publishing Limited, Hampshire, England. 255 pages.
