CONTESTED AGRONOMY

We use the term ‘political agronomy' to refer to the study of relationships and processes which link political, economic and social forces and factors to the creation and use of agronomic knowledge and technology. Political agronomy studies differ from other (apolitical) studies of scientific and technical change within agriculture by problematising the production and use of agronomic knowledge and technology in terms of asymmetric power relations, contestation and struggle... In our call for contributions for the conference, we particularly invited case studies of historical or present day significance to the developing world. These cases might focus on the history or nature of contestation; actors and coalitions; political and institutional drivers and dynamics; or the implications of contestation (e.g. for the field of agronomy, for researchers and research institutions, for journals, for policy or for farmers)... Contested Agronomy: whose agronomy counts? is a conference about..