Contested agronomy :  agricultural research in a changing world / 
[edited] by James Sumberg and John Thompson. 
 - New York, NY :  Earthscan,  2012. 
 - xi, 220p.   22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Contested agronomy: agricultural research in a changing world / James Sumberg, John Thompson and Philip Woodhouse -- On heretics and God's blanket salesmen: contested claims for conservation agriculture and the politics of its promotion in African smallholder farming / Jens A. Andersson and Ken E. Giller -- Conservation agriculture based technologies and the political economy: lessons from South Asia / Olaf Erenstein -- Anthropogenic dark earths and Africa: a political agronomy of research disjunctures / James Fairhead, Melissa Leach and Kojo Amanor -- Contestation as continuity? Biofortification research and the CGIAR / Sally Brooks and Sarah E. Johnson-Beebout -- Water in African agronomy / Philip Woodhouse -- Understanding agricultural intensification on a forest frontier in Madagascar: elements for a Malthusian/Boserupian synthesis / Jacques Pollini -- Alternative configurations of agronomic experimentation / Harro Maat and Dominic Glover -- "This field is our church": the social and agronomic challenges of knowledge generation in a participatory soil fertility management project / Joshua Ramisch -- Contesting agronomy through dissent: experiences from India / C. Shambu Prasad ... [et al.] -- Success making and success stories: agronomic research in the spotlight / James Sumberg ... [et al.] -- Nullius in verba: contestation, pathways and political agronomy / John Thompson and James Sumberg. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415507141 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Agriculture--Research--Political aspects.<br/>Agronomy--Research--Political aspects.<br/>Agriculture--Research--Social aspects.<br/>Agronomy--Research--Social aspects.<br/>Agriculture and state.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>630.72 SUM