Subject: Agricultural Change partnerships

Coalitions of Interest 

Partnerships for Processes of Agricultural Change




Ruth Alsop, Elon Gilbert, John Farrington, and Rajiv
Khandelwal




Recent policy reforms in Indian agriculture have not
benefitted large  sections of the agricultural population.
This book documents the  agricultural scenario in the
semi-arid region of Rajasthan and  establishes the need
for ‘process monitoring’ (PM), or the interaction  and
collaboration between different stakeholders, including
various  levels of government, NGOs and farmers’
groups.




The authors argue that difficulties in establishing links
between  governmental organisations, local membership
organisations and  NGOs hamper development
programmes. While NGOs’ lack  technical expertise,
governments do not have NGOs’ close contacts  with
low-income farmers. The government still dominates the
 provision of services for low-resource agriculture.
Practical  mechanisms are needed to effect change
through multiple  stakeholder interaction, and process
monitoring is hailed as the key  tool for these interest
groups or coalitions. 




This book will be essential reading for those in the fields
of  agricultural economics, rural development,
development  administration, research methodology and
sociology, and will also  interest international and donor
agencies, programme designers as  well as NGOs
struggling to assist diverse agents to articulate and act
upon a common interest.




(Published by SAGE Publications India)




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