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International technical interventions in agriculture and rural development: Some basic trends, issues, and questions

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This paper presents some of the basic trends, issues, and questions regarding the last four decades of international development cooperation in agriculture. The impact of technical cooperation tends to account for only a small proportion of change; the bulk of the variance being caused by internal, rather than external, forces and events. The paper reviews both multilateral and bilateral technical cooperation, and then illustrates with the case of U.S. universities in international technical cooperation. It goes on to question the difference between “development” and “merely change,” and asks who are the real beneficiaries? Finally, the paper suggests the following factors affecting continuity and change as forces to be analysed with respect to any attempt at technical cooperation: biological, physical, cultural, social, economic, administrative, political, and diplomatic. The world experience of the past four decades confirms that without consideration of such a human ecology of continuity and change, well-meaning interventions in international technical cooperation are likely to have unintended consequences for both “donors” and “recipients.” Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1988

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  • George Axinn, 1988. "International technical interventions in agriculture and rural development: Some basic trends, issues, and questions," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 5(1), pages 6-15, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:5:y:1988:i:1:p:6-15
    DOI: 10.1007/BF02217172
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    2. Pant, Laxmi P., 2010. "Assessing Innovations in International Research and Development Practice," MERIT Working Papers 2010-043, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    3. Mees Baaijen & Enrique Pérez, 1995. "Information technology in the Costa Rican dairy sector: A key instrument in extension and on-farm research," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 12(2), pages 45-51, March.

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