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International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Volume 4, Number 2, 2007

Participatory research

Jacqueline Ashby and Jules Pretty

Commentary: Participatory research for sustainable agricultural research and development.......97

James C. McCann, Timothy J. Dalton and Mulugetta Mekuria

Breeding for Africa's new smallholder maize paradigm.......99

James B. Friday, Harold J. McArthur and Leon A. Watson

Using participatory rural appraisal and participatory research and extension in a post-independence environment: a case from East Timor.......108

Y. Chiffoleau and D. Desclaux

Participatory plant breeding: the best way to breed for sustainable agriculture?.......119

Paul Van Mele

Zooming-in zooming-out: a novel method to scale up local innovations and sustainable technologies.......131

Liz Fajber and Ronnie Vernooy

From voice to choice: lessons from a regional capacity development initiative to strengthen social and gender analysis in participatory natural resource management research.......143

Joshua J. Ramisch, Michael T. Misiko, Isaac E. Ekise and John B. Mukalama

Strengthening ‘folk ecology’: community-based learning for integrated soil fertility management, western Kenya.......154