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Author Mutsaers, H. J. W., 1940-

Title Peasants, farmers and scientists : a chronicle of tropical agricultural science in the twentieth century / H.J.W. Mutsaers
Published Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Springer, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 607 pages) : illustrations
Contents Front Matter; What Is Tropical Agronomy?; A Tropical Agronomist's Education; Old and New: The 1960s and 1970s; Farmers Are Smarter Than You Think; Forests, Fallows and Fields; Farmer Skills, an Elusive Property; Mainly Technology; Follies and Sanity of Farming Systems Research; The Modelling Sorcerers and Their Apprentices; Donors, Experts and Consultants; Can African Farming Be Improved? (And Can Agronomists Help?); Back Matter
Summary This book is a critical account of tropical agricultural science and agricultural development in the twentieth century, in particular in Africa. It describes successes as well as fads and failures, from the perspective of a practitioner of more than 40 years. The emphasis is on the second half of the century, but the story frequently reaches deep into the first half of the century as well. The book??'s premise is that the story of tropical agricultural science and agricultural development can be told in a single volume at a more than trivial level, understandable for people of normal intellige
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-598)-and indexes
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Subject Agriculture -- Tropics -- History -- 20th century
Agronomy -- Tropics -- History -- 20th century
Agricultural systems -- Tropics -- History -- 20th century
History.
1900s
Agriculture -- history
Tropical Climate
History
farming (activity or system)
history (discipline)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Tropical Agriculture.
Agronomy -- Tropics -- History -- 20th century.
Agricultural systems -- Tropics -- History -- 20th century.
Agriculture -- Tropics -- History -- 20th century.
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Agricultural systems
Agriculture
Agronomy
Tropics
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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