The recent enthusiasm for “participation” in agricultural development has fueled the development of new approaches to research and extension. The rhetoric of “participation” extends the horizons of agricultural research and extension beyond technical problem-solving. Yet in practice few...

"Writing from diverse locations, contributors critically examine some of the key terms in current development discourse. Why should language matter to those who are doing development? Surely, there are more urgent things to do than sit around mulling over semantics? But language does matter....

This collection brings together leading feminist thinkers who examine the struggles for interpretive power which underlies international development. This title questions why the insights from years of feminist gender and development research are so often turned into 'gender myths' and 'feminist...