Cow up a Tree : Knowing and Learning for Change in Agriculture. Case Studies from Industrialised Countries

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword B. Hervieu, Chairman of INRA -- Part I. Introducing Learning and Knowing Processes -- The 'Problematique' with Respect to Industrialised-Country Agricultures B. Hubert, R.L. Ison & N. Röling -- Theoretical Frameworks for Learning-Based Approaches to Change in Industrialised-Country Agricultures R.L. Ison, C. High, C.P. Blackmore & M. Cerf -- Intervention Research and the Production of Knowledge A. Hatchuel -- Globalisation and Technology : the Implications for Learning Processes in Developed Agriculture J. Jiggins, B. Huber & M. Collins -- Part II. Working with Learning Groups -- Learning Groups Developing Collaborative Learning Methods for Diversified, Site-Specific Weed Management : a Case Study from Minnesota, USA N. Jordan, S. White, J. Gunsolus, R. Becker & S. Damme -- Learning Processes in Designing and Disseminating Ecological Olive Production Systems in Crete, Greece E. Kabourakis -- The Results and Success Factors of a Farm Monitoring and Study Group Approach to Collective Learning in New Zealand G. W. Sheath & R. W. Webby -- Promoting Collective Learning in a Land-Use Management Project : Thirteen Years' Experience in Researcher-Technician Partnership in the Cévennes, France N. Couix & B. Hubert -- Farmers and Environmental Learning in Britain : the Case of the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group J. Mills & M. Winter -- Towards Sustainable Rural Livelihoods : the Emergence of Co-Learning Approaches in Swedish Agriculture M. Ljung & D. Gibbon -- Learning Together about Dairy Cow Fertility Technologies in Relation to Farming Systems in New Zealand M.S. Paine, C.R. Burke, G.A. Verkerk & P.J. Jolly -- The FARMSCAPE Experience. Simulations Aid Participative Learning in Risky Farming Systems in Australia Z. Hochman, J. Coutts, P.S. Carberry & R.L. McCown.