{"id":485,"date":"1993-12-31T16:04:22","date_gmt":"1993-12-31T21:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/?p=485"},"modified":"2016-07-07T16:11:01","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T20:11:01","slug":"reluctant-partners-ngos-the-state-and-sustainable-agricultural-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/1993\/book\/reluctant-partners-ngos-the-state-and-sustainable-agricultural-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Reluctant partners: NGOs, the state and sustainable agricultural development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>| By J.\u00a0Farrington and A.J.Bebbington with K. Wellard and D. Lewis | Published by Routledge, London |<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Reluctant-Partners-Non-Governmental-Organizations-the-State-and-Sustainable\/Bebbington-Farrington-Lewis-Wellard\/p\/book\/9780415088442\" target=\"_blank\">Official webpage and purchasing information<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2016\/07\/Bebbington-reluctant-partners-NGOs-state-sustainable-agriculture-development.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-486 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2016\/07\/Bebbington-reluctant-partners-NGOs-state-sustainable-agriculture-development-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bebbington - reluctant partners - NGOs state sustainable agriculture development\" width=\"163\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2016\/07\/Bebbington-reluctant-partners-NGOs-state-sustainable-agriculture-development-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2016\/07\/Bebbington-reluctant-partners-NGOs-state-sustainable-agriculture-development.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 163px) 100vw, 163px\" \/><\/a>Reluctant Partners? combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGOs&#8217; work in agriculture with wider considerations of their relations with the State and their contribution to democratic pluralism. This overview volume for the Non-Governmental Organizations series contextualizes and synthesizes the case study material in the three regional volumes on Africa, Asia and Latin America, where over sixty specially commissioned case studies of farmer-participatory approaches to agricultural innovation are presented.<\/p>\n<p>Specific questions are raised. How good\/bad are NGOs at promoting technological innovation and addressing contraints to change in peasant culture? How effective are NGOs at strengthening local organizations? How do\/will donor pressures influence NGOs and their links to the State?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| By J.\u00a0Farrington and A.J.Bebbington with K. Wellard and D. Lewis | Published by Routledge, London | Official webpage and purchasing information Reluctant Partners? combines comprehensive empirical insights into NGOs&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":455,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34825,20362],"tags":[28776,24544,34812],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-34825","category-book","tag-agriculture","tag-development","tag-ngos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/455"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/abebbington\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}