On this page are the presentations from the parallel sessions, followed by the posters presented at the conference. Both are available as downloadable PDF files.
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Presentations
Introduction
Dave Harris: Agronomy is… | Watch video
Georges Serpantié: What are agronomies?
Plenary (day 1)
Ken Giller: A golden age for agronomy? | Watch video
Sieg Snapp: Perennial grains: Transformative option or pipe dream? | Watch video
Bart Steenhuijsen Piters: Why conventional agronomy will never reach the poor | Watch video
Session 1: Sustainable intensification & yield gaps
Mary Ollenburger: Intensification and extensification in mixed farming systems of Southern Mali
João Silva: Opportunities and constraints for closing rice yield gaps in Central Luzon, Philippines
Dave Harris: Sustainable Intensification: who’s keen and who isn’t?
Paul Struik: Sustainable intensification in agriculture: the darker shade of green
Session 2: China and Brazil in African Agriculture: technocentric modernisation the southern way
Xiuli Xu and Gubo Qi: Making order from disjuncture: daily operation of Agricultural Technology Demonstration Centres in Tanzania and Ethiopia
Lidia Cabral: Brazil’s contested agronomy for Africa: insights from EMBRAPA’s knowledge encounters in Mozambique
Session 3: Seeds & systems
Conny Almekinders, Steve Walsh, Jorge Andrade, Kim Jacobs and Jeff Bentley: Farmers’ demand for seed: social differentiation and perceived technology needs
Shawn McGuire: Clamping down on ‘fake seed’ in East Africa: watching a sideshow, scorning the main event
Ola Westengen: Crops in context: negotiating traditional and formal institutions in local seed systems of maize and sorghum
Ruth Haug: The political agronomy of contested seeds in Tanzania
Session 4: Conservation Agriculure
Corné Rademaker and Henk Jochemsen: On the role of religion in the political agronomy of Conservation Agriculture
Bridget Bwalya: Analysis of Conservation Agriculture promotion and uptake in Mufulira, Zambia: a political agronomy approach
Peter Hobbs: Solutions to contested agronomy: should they be contested or resolved?
Tania Martinez-Cruz: The politics of agricultural technology interventions: the case of Conservation Agriculture in Bajio, Mexico
Session 5: Creating and contesting agronomic knowledge
N. Natarajan: Knowledge production among tobacco agriculturalists in Southern India: moving towards a class-based analysis
Ryan Nehring: Yields of dreams: marching west and the politics of scientific knowledge in the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa)
Trish O’Flynn: From knowledge to invention: exploring user innovation in Irish agriculture
Rachel Bezner Kerr, Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Joseph Kanmenaang, Laifolo Dakishoni, Esther Lupafya, Lizzie Shumba, Isaac Luginaah and Sieglinde Snapp: “If we plant trees, the rains will come back.” Gendered knowledge flows, competing discourses about climate change and implications for adaptation in Malawi
Session 6: Biodiversity, carbon and CSA
Julie Ingram: “Here, we argue that”: contested views of managing soil carbon for mitigation
Andrea Nightingale, Linus Karlsson, Lars Otto Naess and John Thompson: Triple Wins or Double Faults? A Critical Assessment of the Power and Influence of Discourses on Climate Smart Agriculture
Ruth Segal: Contested framings of agricultural research for development
Andrea Ruediger: Agro-biodiversity for the poorest? A critical review of a popular idea
Session 7: System of rice intensification
Georges Serpantié: After the Rio Summit: “newly authorised knowledge” and the institutionalisation of a rice cultivation alternative (SRI) devised by a civil society organisation
Shambu Prasad C.: “Uprooting” rice science?: an Indian perspective on controversies and production of knowledge on SRI
Dominic Glover: Productivity by design versus innovation by performance. Or, how systemic is the System of Rice Intensification?
Debashish Sen: What does SRI bring? Improved yields or increased agronomic-bandwidth? What do farmers do when sustainable intensification methods open up several newer options in rice cultivation practices?
Session 8: Extension, persuasion and justice
Patience Rwamigisa: How the solution became a problem: strategies in the reform of agricultural extension in Uganda
Session 9: GM debates
Klara Fischer: Social impacts of GM crops in agriculture: why are there so few empirical accounts from the industrialised world and what can we learn by drawing lessons across industrialised and developing country contexts
Sheila Rao and Chris Huggins: The Sweet Smell of ‘Success’: Contesting biofortification strategies to address malnutrition in Tanzania
Session 10: Politics of data and methods
Timothy J. Krupnik, Jens Andersson, Leonard Rusinamhodzi, Marc Corbeels, and Bruno Gérard: Does size matter? A critical analysis of the use of meta-analysis in contested agronomy
Cees Leeuwis: Systems research in the CGIAR as a multi-dimensional arena of struggle
Ismael Rafols, Tommaso Ciarli and Diego Chavarro: Underreporting research relevant to local needs in the global south: Database biases in the representation of knowledge on rice
Session 11: Water and resource management
Tapiwa Chatiko: Evaluating Holistic Management in Hwange Communal Lands, Zimbabwe: an actor-oriented livelihood approach, incorporating everyday politics and resistance
Jean-Philippe Venot: Contesting the uncontestable: a heretic’s view on drip irrigation in developing countries
Session 12: Complexity, tradeoffs, and bias: Evaluating the impact of “new” agronomy and “old” extension systems
Bart Minten: From Madagascar to Ethiopia and back: why economic impact evaluations matter for agronomy
Joachim Vandercasteelen: From lab to land: perceptions and impacts of scaling up the adoption of row planting to teff farmers in Ethiopia
Patrick S. Ward: Facilitating behavioural change by complementing agronomy with risk management
Beliyou Haile, Carlo Azzarri, Cleo Roberts, David Spielman: Targeting bias or early impact of agricultural innovation? A case study from Malawi
Session 13: Policy, priorities and agendas
Elena Lazos: (Un)contested agronomy intertwined with national policies and multinational corporations. Power and inequality in Mexico
Jonathan Mockshell: Two worlds in agricultural policy making in Africa? Case studies from Ghana, Senegal, and Uganda
George Okongo: Agents without principals: agenda setting for public agricultural research in Africa – case studies in Ghana and Kenya
Kate Wellard, Sieg Snapp, Wezi Mhango, Daimon Kambewa, George Kanyama Phiri, Mirriam Matita and Maaike Hartog: Beyond subsidies: What are the prospects for integrated soil fertility management approaches (ISFM) in Malawi?
Session 14: Scaling for impact
Harley Pope: Tentative toeholds to scaling bureaucratic obstacles: a socio-technical analysis of the contestations constraining the institutionalisation of participatory crop improvement initiatives in India
William Moseley: One step forward, two steps back in farmer knowledge exchange: “Scaling-Up” as Fordist replication in drag
Jens Andersson, Tim Krupnik and Nina de Roo: Trials for development impact? The organization of on-farm research for scaling agricultural technologies
Posters
Ciarli and Rafols – Mapping the Evolution of Rice Research
Engström et al -Development Delayed
Haugejorden – The Robustification of Success
Liebman and Raskin – ‘Extension(al) Crisis’ – Minnesota (Project summary)
Liebman and Raskin- ‘Extension(al) Crisis’ – Minnesota (Poster)
Yenenesh et al – Farmers Potato Production in Ethiopia
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