Cow up a Tree

Western societies are calling for speedy change in agriculture and the
agrifood industries to incorporate new quality criteria into the goods they
produce. To promote these changes what scientists must develop are not
universally implementable technical solutions, but self-diagnosis methods to
be used by agricultural producers and their advisors. They also need to evolve
new procedures for research intervention in collective organisations. There is
a need for new individual and collective learning and organisation processes
based on transdisciplinarity and co-learning among researchers, development
professionals, decision makers and farmers. In this book, scientists from ten
industrialised countries describe and reflect on their theoretical and
practical experience of the different forms of learning they experimented
with.