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- Recently, there has been a great deal of attention devoted to the notion of farmer participation in agricultural research. In this connection, there has been a challenge to the conventional research model which conceives of the farmer as a passive partner so far as the identification of the problem, the conduct of the research and the development of the solution is concerned. This paper reviews a number of models suggested for agricultural research, noting the strengths and weaknesses of the models. Based on the author's experiences and other case studies, the implications of farmer participation in the development and dissemination of agricultural technologies are examined.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Advertisement for the Journal of social development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Description:
- Many African countries have clearly established central development planning structures, unlike most countries in the North. This article takes a closer look at one such planning machinery, in Botswana, that having remained virtually unchanged for three decades is currently under review to reinvigorate its original commitment to popular participation, which was undermined in the process of national development. The article begins with a brief introduction to Botswana. This is partly because having one of the few stable regimes in Africa, Botswana is little reported on and so remains largely unknown, but mainly because policies and the structures that support them develop against a backdrop of specific historical experiences that shape these policies and structures. Subsequently, following a description of the country's current development planning mechanism and the factors that have led to its re-examination, we analyse an exploratory experiment in grassroots participatory planning, focusing on the attitudes of middle-management civil servants to its effects. The conclusions for participatory planning are generally positive, and may be relevant to other countries in Southern Africa, like Zambia and Zimbabwe, whose planning structures bear a close resemblance to those in Botswana, even though their governments have pursued different ideological paths since independence
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
- Date Issued:
- 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa
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- This paper briefly examines the unprecedented political events in Malawi that began in March 1992 and culminated in multi-party elections in which Dr. Banda's regime yielded the reigns of power to a democratically elected government. Using detailed results of the 1994 presidential and parliamentary elections, the paper argues that regionalism rather than ethnicity appears to be the dominant factor influencing voting patterns at the national level. Regionalism appears to have resulted in the formation of three super ethnic groups each with its own regional base. Elites are securing political power by redefining the ethnic equation; and their competition for scarce resources and political power continues to occur in the guise of spatial units, among which the super ethnic region is the more salient, and has consequently become the most influential factor in elections.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- African Journal of Political Science
- Date Issued:
- 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review
- Date Issued:
- 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
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- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Research Review (New Series)
- Date Issued:
- 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Journal of Social Development in Africa