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  1. What farmers don't know can't help them: The strengths and weaknesses of indigenous technical knowledge in Honduras. [REVIEW]Jeffery W. Bentley - 1989 - Agriculture and Human Values 6 (3):25-31.
    Traditional Central American peasant farmers know more about some aspects of the local agroecosystem than about others. In general farmers know more about plants, less about insects, and less still about plant pathology. Without discounting economic factors, ease of observability must explain part of this difference. Certain local beliefs may affect what farmers observe and know. For example, a belief in spontaneous generation may lead people to fail to observe insect reproduction. The implications of the gaps in farmer knowledge are (...)
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  • Facts, fantasies, and failures of farmer participatory research.Jeffery W. Bentley - 1994 - Agriculture and Human Values 11 (2-3):140-150.
    Farmer participatory research (FPR) has generated many programmatic statements and few technologies. FPR has probably been of interest more because of dissatisfaction with the green revolution and agricultural establishment research than because of a proven ability of scientists and farmers to collaborate together. There are several barriers between farmers and scientists, not the least of which is social distance. The role of FPR should be critically examined; it may work best setting research agendas or in the case of researchers who (...)
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  • Elements of a strategy of collective action.Laurie E. Adkin - 1998 - In Roger Keil (ed.), Political Ecology: Global and Local. Routledge. pp. 285.
     
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  • Theoretical approaches1.Patricia E. Perkins - 1998 - In Roger Keil (ed.), Political Ecology: Global and Local. Routledge. pp. 45.
     
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