A group of researchers at Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, that deals with the issues of knowledge and governance, is happy to announce an International Academic Conference on Agricultural Knowledge and Knowledge Systems in post-Soviet Societies. The conference will take place in Bonn, Germany, on September 12 13, 2013.
Learn more about the background of the conference on Agriculture in the post-Soviet states of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
A group of researchers at Centre for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, that deals with the issues of knowledge and governance, is happy to announce an International Academic Conference on Agricultural Knowledge and Knowledge Systems in post-Soviet Societies. The conference will take place in Bonn, Germany, on September 12 13, 2013.
Learn more about the background of the conference on Agriculture in the post-Soviet states of Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Conference Themes
- Cultures of knowledge production and sharing in agriculture: How can local epistemic cultures determining the character of the agricultural knowledge systems be assessed and what do they look like? Who are the actors and structures of agriculturally oriented knowledge and innovation development as well as the local channels of innovation diffusion?
- Local governance arrangements and knowledge production: How is the local production of knowledge, its share and use influenced and stimulated by overall factors, as state legislation, economic incentives or social arrangements? What determines the status of knowledge in a rural community, assuming that knowledge is constantly being shaped and at the same time shaping peoples behavior? How do governance arrangements - including the governance of natural resources of e.g. land and water enable and constrain the development, mobilization and adaptation of knowledge?
- Agricultural advisory service development: The present situation of agricultural advisory services development will be analized by examining the role of knowledge in current agricultural production. Do farmers/ farming systems e.g. lack certain types of knowledge, while actively (re-)producing and disseminating others? What prevents them from accessing and using knowledge? Who are the main knowledge providers to farmers during the transition process? What enables and constrains the use of agricultural advisory support services for improved agricultural production?
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