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Reconceptualizing Participation for Sustainable Rural Development: Towards a Negotiation Approach
In: Development and change, Band 31, Heft 5, S. 931-959
ISSN: 1467-7660
In many popular intervention methodologies aimed at stimulating sustainable rural development (in the widest possible sense) the idea of 'participation' is a leading principle. This article will demonstrate that the process in which actors are supposed to participate is often thought of as being a process of planning, decision‐making and/or social learning. It will be argued that such an operationalization of development processes is based on inconsistent theoretical assumptions, and can easily lead to unproductive development interventions due to an inability to handle conflicts. As an alternative it is proposed to use negotiation theory as a basis for organizing participatory development efforts. The implications of such a shift in thinking about participation are far‐reaching: it requires new modes of analysis, and different roles, tasks and skills for facilitators of participatory processes.
TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGICAL CONCEPTUALIZATION OF COMMUNICATION IN EXTENSION SCIENCE: On Giddens, Habermas and Computer‐based Communication Technologies in Dutch Agriculture
In: Sociologia ruralis, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 281-305
ISSN: 1467-9523
The Politics of Changing the Dutch Agri-Food System
In: Journal of political sociology, Band 1, Heft 1
ISSN: 2950-2152
Tensions between farmers, government and society have recently been running high in the Netherlands. Dutch farmers are furious with the national government because of the ever-stricter nitrogen policy that is supposed to save nature in the Netherlands, in line with European directives. The current plan states that nitrogen emissions need to be reduced by 50% in 2030. The disagreement over how to tackle the nitrogen issue in the Netherlands is a deeply rooted conflict that goes back decades. In this political commentary, we analyse the conflict and argue that the solutions proposed in the public and political debate tend to ignore the systemic nature of the problem. We suggest that it is important to work towards innovation in the rules and arrangements that govern agricultural value chains to create a more conducive and enabling environment for the regional initiatives that have emerged in response to the current crisis, several of which challenge the currently dominant food system.
Learning about Advocacy: A Case-Study of Challenges, Everyday Practices and Tensions
In: Evaluation: the international journal of theory, research and practice, Band 14, Heft 4, S. 413-436
ISSN: 1461-7153
Advocacy has become an important area of development support. Simultaneously, the interest in learning-oriented monitoring of advocacy programmes has increased. Starting from the premise that learning has sociopolitical dimensions, this article explores how the challenges and contradictions of such monitoring present themselves in Latin American advocacy activities supported by a Danish NGO. Our case-study demonstrates that two largely separate monitoring systems coexist. Side by side with a conventional formal and indicator-based monitoring system, project staff and stakeholders have developed a more informal and dialogical mode of monitoring advocacy. Although the latter has potential advantages from a learning perspective, the article demonstrates that its actual contribution to organizational learning is suboptimal and points to several sociopolitical obstacles and influences that lead to limited learning.The article concludes that the improvement of learning-oriented monitoring first and foremost requires affirmative `political' action and leadership towards widening the space for learning and reflexivity.
Institutionalizing end-user demand steering in agricultural R&D: Farmer levy funding of R&D in The Netherlands
In: Research Policy, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 460-472
Delegation of authority in research funding to networks: experiences with a multiple goal boundary organization
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 183-196
ISSN: 1471-5430
Conflict, Communication and Space for Change in Complex Problem Situations
In: IACM 21st Annual Conference Paper
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PLANNED TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND LOCAL INITIATIVE: Computer‐supported Enterprise Comparisons Among Dutch Horticulturists
In: Sociologia ruralis, Band 31, Heft 2-3, S. 140-161
ISSN: 1467-9523
Facing the challenges of climate change and food security: the role of research, extension and communication for development
In: Occasional papers on innovation in family farming
Equivocations on knowledge systems theory: An actor-oriented critique
In: Knowledge, Technology and Policy, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 19-27
ISSN: 1874-6314
The need for reflexive evaluation approaches in development cooperation
In: Evaluation: the international journal of theory, research and practice, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 99-115
ISSN: 1461-7153
Within development cooperation, development issues are increasingly recognized as complex problems requiring new paths towards solving them. In addition to the commonly used two dimensions of complex problems (uncertainty and disagreement), we introduce a third dimension: systemic stability; that is, stability provided by rules, relations and complementary technology. This article reflects on how development evaluation methodologies and especially those introducing a complexity perspective address these three dimensions. Inferring that this third dimension deserves more attention, we explore the characteristics of reflexive evaluation approaches that challenge systemic stability and support processes of learning and institutional change. We conclude that reflexive evaluation approaches may well complement current system approaches in development evaluation practice.
Beyond the research–policy interface. Boundary arrangements at research–stakeholder interfaces in the policy debate on biofuel sustainability in Mozambique
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 27, S. 91-102
ISSN: 1462-9011
Ex Ante Scale Dynamics Analysis in the Policy Debate on Sustainable Biofuels in Mozambique
In: Ecology and society: E&S ; a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, Band 18, Heft 1
ISSN: 1708-3087
Anchoring of innovations: Assessing Dutch efforts to harvest energy from glasshouses
In: Environmental innovation and societal transitions, Band 5, S. 1-18
ISSN: 2210-4224