Overseas Development Institute Archive

The growth of 'the community' as a inajor focus of development through which collective social action can take place has spread rapidly through development ideology since [...]

In Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso and Guinea, partnerships between research and producers' organisations are emerging. These partnerships take various forms, depending on th [...]

The already serious food security situation in semi-arid areas of Kenya has been rendered more precarious through the implementation of economic liberalisation measures a [...]

This paper describes the development and the institutionalisation of a participatory approach to innovation development and extension which took place through an action l [...]

In many southern African countries the role of national agricultural extension systems over the last two to three decades has been mainly to promote the hybrid maize and [...]

Two profound and related changes are reworking the rural economy of the Andean region today. These must necessarily be central considerations in the search for sustainabl [...]