Behavioral change in agriculture: concepts and strategies for influencing transition /

Based on the work of an international conference held at Cornell University.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 490-494.

The central objective of the international conference held at Cornell University was to glean fundamental concepts from the several disciplines and subject areas having high relevance to influencing behavioural change associated with agricultural development in low producing areas of the world, to analyse these concepts, and to indicate their implications for strategy. The contributions are organized into five parts following an introduction (Chapter 1) designed to provide a theoretical orientation to the entire volume. Part I focuses on complementarities in macro and micro approaches and thus provides a framework for the remaining units and each of the succeeding parts. Part II is oriented to technology and its utilization and analyzes the technical subject-matter with which behavioural change in agriculture must relate and the educational process of promoting its utilization. In Part III the economy and the policy are analysed in relation to each other and to the process of agricultural development. Social science and development is the focus of Part IV, which treats human behaviour as a dependent variable in the change process. The final part, " Synthesis: concepts and strategies ", consists of four chapters designed to identify and relate primary concepts and their implications for strategy enunciated in the previous chapters. Special attention is given to the social sciences, the agricultural sciences, and the administrative sciences. Each part is prefaced by an editor's introduction designed to orient readers to the subject, to provide a rationale for viewing the relationships of the part to other parts of the volume and to the agricultural modernization process.

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