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Peasant science: Farmer research and Philippine rice development.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Peasant science: Farmer research and Philippine rice development./
Author:	Frossard, David Robert.
Description:	236 p.
Notes:	Chair: Frank Cancian.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-08A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9500572

Peasant science: Farmer research and Philippine rice development.
Frossard, David Robert.

Peasant science: Farmer research and Philippine rice development. - 236 p.

Chair: Frank Cancian.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 1994.

Peasant farmers in the Philippines and elsewhere are often depicted as fundamentally (and irrationally) opposed to change, science, and "progress" by modernizationist development-industry professionals. This view helps to legitimize government efforts to impose official, "top-down" agricultural-development schemes such as the "Green Revolution" on rural people. One group of Philippine farmers (called MASIPAG) contests the prevailing wisdom. Adopting the scientific crop-development techniques of the nearby International Rice Research Institute--learned through a partnership with disaffected nationalist academics from the University of the Philippines agricultural campus at Los Banos--these "peasant scientists" now hybridize and select rice varieties to meet their own criteria for good taste, disease resistance, environmental sustainability, and low cost (qualities they find lacking in IRRI-produced rice and its associated technology). By duplicating selected scientific rice-production methods in their Nueva Ecija Province rice-breeding station (though to ends different from IRRI's), these farmers also hope to claim some of the credibility, power, autonomy, and status accruing to "official" agricultural-research institutes and scientists. Thus, peasant scientists turn images of supposed "anti-science" peasants upside-down and make science itself a tool for self-empowerment. For their part, the dissident scientists of the MASIPAG farmer-scientist partnership gain powerful nationalist rhetorical tools because they can claim to "speak for the farmers" (who are their partners) about national crop-development policy and other political issues. The practice of peasant science challenges several strands of mainstream social-science peasant theory, and contests scientific claims of exclusive access to a superior form of knowing. It also suggests new paradigms of participatory farmer-centered development and new roles for development professionals.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Peasant science: Farmer research and Philippine rice development.
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