Author： Ward Andrew Minja Eliaineny Blackie Malcolm Edwards-Jones Gareth
Publisher： IP Publishing Ltd
ISSN： 0030-7270
Source： Outlook on Agriculture, Vol.36, Iss.4, 2007-12, pp. : 259-266
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Abstract
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.
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