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Science, Technology and Innovation - Consortium Outputs

 

Science, Technology and Innovation is a new core theme for the second phase of the Future Agricultures Consortium.

Consortium outputs will be posted here as they are produced. Please visit this page again for updates.

Further Reading

Robert Tripp, 'Self-sufficient Agriculture: Labour and Knowledge in Small-scale Farming', London: Earthscan

Definitions and Prospects

Jules Pretty, 1998, 'Feeding the World?', Norfolk Genetic Information Network sourced from 'SPLICE', Vol 4 No 6

Also see other publications by Jules Pretty at the University of Essex

Low Input Farming: Merits and Limits, 'Extracts from Ceres No. 144' (Vol. 25, No. 6), November-December 1993

Networks and Advocates

LEISA - Magazine on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture

PROLINNOVA - Promoting Local Innovation

UKabc - UK Agricultural Biodiversity Coalition

Critical Evaluation

Human and Social Capital in the Diffusion of Low External Input Agriculture, ODI

Innovation Systems

'From Research to Poverty Reducing 'Innovation'', Policy Brief by Andrew Barnett of SRA Ltd for the Crop Post Harvest Programme

IK Notes, No 76, January 2005, World Bank, 'Promoting Local Innovation'

'From Reductionism to Farmer Innovation Systems: Implications for Multi-stakeholder Collaboration and Learning in Uganda', Chris Opondo , Joshua Zake , Ann Stroud , Joseph Tanui , Ronald Lutalo and Rogers Kanzikwera, PROLINNOVA, paper presented at International Farming Systems Association (IFSA) Conference, 31 Oct-4 Nov 2005, Rome, Italy



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