Peasants, Farmers and Scientists A Chronicle of Tropical Agricultural Science in the Twentieth Century - Mutsaers, H.J.W.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007)
What Is Tropical Agronomy? -- A Tropical Agronomist's Education -- Old and New: The 1960s and 1970s -- Farmers Are Smarter Than You Think -- Forests, Fallows and Fields -- Farmer Skills, an Elusive Property -- Mainly Technology -- Follies and Sanity of Farming Systems Research -- The Modelling Sorcerers and Their Apprentices -- Donors, Experts and Consultants -- Can African Farming Be Improved? (And Can Agronomists Help?).
Keywords: Agriculture; Plant science; Botany; Environmental monitoring; Soil science; Soil conservation; Development economics; History; Agriculture; Plant Sciences; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Soil Science & Conservation; Development Economics; History of Science