Learning and Sustaining Agricultural Practices von Karen Haydock | The Dialectics of Cultivating Cultivation in Rural India | ISBN 9783030640644

Learning and Sustaining Agricultural Practices

The Dialectics of Cultivating Cultivation in Rural India

von Karen Haydock, Abhijit Sambhaji Bansode, Gurinder Singh und Kalpana Sangale
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinKaren Haydock
Autor / AutorinAbhijit Sambhaji Bansode
Autor / AutorinGurinder Singh
Autor / AutorinKalpana Sangale
Buchcover Learning and Sustaining Agricultural Practices | Karen Haydock | EAN 9783030640644 | ISBN 3-030-64064-7 | ISBN 978-3-030-64064-4

Learning and Sustaining Agricultural Practices

The Dialectics of Cultivating Cultivation in Rural India

von Karen Haydock, Abhijit Sambhaji Bansode, Gurinder Singh und Kalpana Sangale
Mitwirkende
Autor / AutorinKaren Haydock
Autor / AutorinAbhijit Sambhaji Bansode
Autor / AutorinGurinder Singh
Autor / AutorinKalpana Sangale
This book describes a participatory case study of a small family farm in Maharashtra, India. It is a dialectical study of cultivating cultivation: how paddy cultivation is learnt and taught, and why it is the way it is. The paddy cultivation that the family is doing at first appears to be ‘traditional’. But by observation and working along with the family, the authors have found that they are engaging in a dynamic process in which they are questioning, investigating, and learning by doing. The authors compare this to the process of doing science, and to the sort of learning that occurs in formal education. The book presents evidence that paddy cultivation has always been varying and evolving through chance and necessity, experimentation, and economic contingencies. Through the example of one farm, the book provides a critique of current attempts to sustain agriculture, and an understanding of the ongoing agricultural crisis.