Niels Röling

TL;DR: The SLIM (Social Learning for the integrated management and sustainable use of water at catchment scale) project as mentioned in this paper is a multidisciplinary group of researchers to research social learning in catchments of different type, scale, and socioeconomic situation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited this issue from a number of angles: current approaches to enlisting SSA smallholders in agricultural development; the history of the phenomenal productivity growth in the USA, The Netherlands and Green Revolution Asia; and the current framework conditions for SSA productivity growth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take the viewpoint of a social scientist and look at agricultural scientists' pathways for science impact, focusing on innovation, not as the end-of-pipe outcome of development and transfer of results of research to "ultimate users", but as a process of technical and institutional change at farm and higher system levels that impacts on productivity, sustainability and poverty reduction.

TL;DR: In contrast to technological interventions and economics, social learning reflects the idea that the shared learning of interdependent stakeholders is a key mechanism for arriving at more desirable solutions to complex problems in rural environments.

TL;DR: In this paper, a constructivist epistemology leads to a completely different approach that includes the conventional one, but ultimately leads to very different choices, and the challenge to agricultural science is together to further construct and operationalise this paradigm.