String along with researchers

The days are over when researchers and extensionists arrived in their 4-wheel drives in your village, jumped down and started to ask all kinds of impertinent questions about your debts, incomes, activities and sex-lives. Dimensions of participation is a good, thorough manual about participation of stakeholders in agricultural research. A dozen case studies from sub-Saharan Africa illustrate various theoretical angles to participation, communication and stakeholder analyses. In a novel approach, they are gradually presented in digestible bits and pieces throughout the book. Another plus is the chapter dedicated to team building in agricultural research, an important but often neglected aspect of communal efforts in the agricultural development world, and one that has paid off in the business world. Dimensions of Participation Experiences, Lessons and Tips from Agricultural Research Practitioners in Sub-Saharan Africa By A Sutherland, A Martin and D Rider Smith, Natural Resources Institute and Department for International Development, 2001. 328 pp. ISBN 0 85954 539 3 GBP 25 Euro 40.70 (order nr ECN16) NRI Catalogue Services CAB International, Wallingford, Oxon OX10 8DE, England Fax: +44 1491 82 92 92 Email: nri@cabi.orgDimensions of Participation Experiences, Lessons and Tips from Agricultural Research Practitioners in Sub-Saharan Africa By A Sutherland, A Martin and D Rider Smith, Natural Resources Institute and Department for International Development, 2001. 328 pp