Year: 2004
Type: book
Abstract: It is starting to become widely recognised that farmers' knowledge has an important role to play in bringing about sustainable innovations in agriculture (Röling and Jiggins 1998;Chambers 1989;Hobart 1993).In this chapter, we first outline some of the backgrounds to this renewed interest in the potential of farmers' knowledge (Section 2).Following this, we discuss the characteristics of farmers' knowledge in more detail, and how it may differ from scientific (or scientists') knowledge (Section 3).This leads us into a discussion of practical ways in which farmers' knowledge may be drawn upon more effectively and the role that scientists may play in this respect (Section 4).In the concluding section we reflect briefly on the institutional changes that may be required in agricultural knowledge systems in order to stimulate scientists to take up this challenge (Section 5).
Authors: M. Stuiver, Cees Leeuwis, J.D. van der Ploeg
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2566776183