Reluctant Partners?: Non-Governmental Organisations, the State and Sustainable Agricultural Development (Non-Governmental Organizations) Book

Reluctant Partners combines comprehensive empirical insights into the work of non-governmental organizations in agriculture with wider considerations of their relationships with the government and their contribution to democratic pluralism.This overview volume for the Non-Governmental Organisations series contextualizes and synthesizes the case study material in the three regional volumes on Africa, Asia and Latin America. The books present data from more than 60 specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation. The contributors examine the performance of NGOs in promoting technological innovation and their role in addressing constraints to change in peasant agriculture. They also explore the effectiveness of NGOs at strengthening grassroots/local organizations and examine how donor pressures influence NGOs and their links to government.Read More