This paper investigates how cowpea variety development has been organized over the past 20 years in Ghana using the concept of “Relevant Social Groups” and suggests possibilities of reconstructing cowpea variety designs to meet market demand dynamics. To a large extent, small-scale farmers'...

Each technology—and also biotechnology—relates to and is developed within a certain context. Besides a technical dimension (the techniques) biotechnology also contains asocial dimension, such as the social relations that reflect themselves in the technology-development, and the aims for...