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Peasants, Farmers and Scientists
H.J.W. Mutsaers
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Description for Peasants, Farmers and Scientists
Hardback. Offers an account of tropical agricultural science and agricultural development in the twentieth century, in particular in Africa. This book takes a critical look at agricultural and general development which has become inflated with hot air to the point of blowing itself apart in the early twenty-first century. Num Pages: 636 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; TVB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1067.
This book is a critical account of tropical agricultural science in the twentieth century, with its successes as well as its fads and failures. Its coverage reaches back into the beginning of the twentieth c- tury, but the second half of the century takes place of choice. Which means that the story is closely linked with that of post-co- nial development and scrutinises the role agricultural science has played (or failed to play) in the advancement of the tropical sma- holder, in particular in Africa. The book was written from the perspective of a practitioner, with the inevitable result that ... Read more
This book is a critical account of tropical agricultural science in the twentieth century, with its successes as well as its fads and failures. Its coverage reaches back into the beginning of the twentieth c- tury, but the second half of the century takes place of choice. Which means that the story is closely linked with that of post-co- nial development and scrutinises the role agricultural science has played (or failed to play) in the advancement of the tropical sma- holder, in particular in Africa. The book was written from the perspective of a practitioner, with the inevitable result that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
636
Condition
New
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402061653
SKU
V9781402061653
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99-15
About H.J.W. Mutsaers
The author, who graduated from Wageningen University in the Netherlands in June 1967 and obtained a PhD degree there in April 1982, has spent a lifetime working in a wide range of tropical agronomy-related fields. He started his career in a cotton development project in Indonesia, lectured and carried out research at the Universities of Wageningen, Yaoundé (Cameroun) and Ibadan ... Read more
Reviews for Peasants, Farmers and Scientists
From the reviews: “Peasants, Farmers and Scientists is a narration of tropical agricultural case studies from the East Indies and West and Central Africa during the latter half of the 20th century. It is also a memoir and an introductory monograph for agronomy curricula … . The book balances the potential of the African farmer and the demise ... Read more