Improving agriculture through systemic action research

R. J. Bawden; R. G. Packham

Improving agriculture through systemic action research

R. J. Bawden, R. G. Packham

Western Sydney University

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This chapter criticizes and extends the view that dryland farming systems are real, and explores the consequences of the systems view and its extension for research methodologies. A case is made for a new 'systems science' that incorporates, rather than supplements, previous scientific approaches to improving agriculture. A key feature of this new science is its focus on the learning process and the synthesis of objectivity with subjectivity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Dryland Farming: A Systems Approach: An Analysis of Dryland Agriculture in Australia
Editors	Victor Squires, Philip Tow
Place of Publication	Sydney, N.S.W.
Publisher	Sydney University Press, in association with Oxford University Press Australia
Pages	261-270
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9780424001692
Publication status	Published - 1991

Keywords

agriculture
system theory
dry farming

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Dryland Farming: A Systems Approach: An Analysis of Dryland Agriculture in Australia. ed. / Victor Squires; Philip Tow. Sydney, N.S.W.: Sydney University Press, in association with Oxford University Press Australia, 1991. p. 261-270.

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