Cultural encounters: learning from cross-disciplinary science and development practice in ecosystem health

S.G. Sherwood, D. Cole, C. Crissman

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    Abstract

    Overcoming challenges to ecosystem health calls for breaking down disciplinary and professional barriers. Through reflection on a research and development project to address pesticide-related concerns in northern Ecuador, this article presents challenges encountered and accommodations made, ranging from staff recruitment, through baseline assessments and community education activities, to mobilising for policy change. In so doing, it exposes underlying problems of paradigm and process inherent in bringing researchers and development practitioners together, in addition to the problematic role of advocacy that is associated with joint research and development initiatives in the fields of agriculture and health.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)179-195
    JournalDevelopment in Practice
    Volume17
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

    Keywords

    • Aid
    • Civil society
    • Environment
    • Gender and diversity
    • Labour and livelihoods
    • Latin America/Caribbean
    • North America
    • Social sector

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