Janice Jiggins
Prof. Dr. Janice Jiggins is currently a guest researcher at Communication and Innovation Studies, Wageningen University Research, The Netherlands. She is also a visiting fellow at IIED, London; a member of the icipe Governing Council; treasurer for the Management Board of Tropenbos International, The Netherlands; and a member of the ILEIA board.
Action, experience and ideas were in evidence concerning policy transitions that would ‘upscale options already available in the small farm sector’, and allow markets to ‘build on the new linkages being created on the ground among producers, consumers, natural resource managers and environmental agencies’. None have been given room on the plenary agenda. Is this a deliberate decision by the organizers?
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4 November, 2010
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For the last fifty years the education of small farmers in their primary occupation – farming – has been neglected. Governments and aid agencies in the South instead have focused their resources on providing publicly funded services that ‘extended’ the findings of research to small farmers through agents employed by the government.
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1 November, 2010
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