Contested Agronomy : Agricultural Research in a Changing World

Chapter 1. Contested Agronomy: Agricultural research in a changing world. Chapter 2. On heretics and God's blanket salesmen: Contested claims for Conservation Agriculture and the politics of its promotion in African smallholder farming. Chapter 3. Conservation agriculture based technologies and the political economy: Lessons from South Asia. Chapter 4. Anthropogenic Dark Earths and Africa: A political agronomy of research disjunctures. Chapter 5. Contestation as continuity? Biofortification research and the CGIAR. Chapter 6. Water in African agronomy. Chapter 7. Understanding agricultural intensification on a forest frontier in Madagascar: Elements for a Malthusian/Boserupian synthesis. Chapter 8. Alternative configurations of agronomic experimentation. Chapter 9. 'This field is our church': The social and agronomic challenges of knowledge generation in a participatory soil fertility management project. Chapter 10. Contesting agronomy through dissent: Experiences from India. Chapter 11. Success making and success stories: Agronomic research in the spotlight. Chapter 12. Nullius in verba: contestation, pathways and political agronomy.