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An alternative approach to research and development, based on the needs of the farming community.

While cultural traditions are important, there is a need to challenge, as well as to respect, those traditions which have given rise to a particular rural research and development system. The authors examine the broad themes of ‘, knowledge transfer’, and the organisation and conduct of research and development from a ‘, second-order’, systems perspective. The discussion is based on the system operating in the rangelands of...

It is now accepted that humans are changing the climate of the Earth and this is the most compelling amongst a long litany of reasons as to why, collectively, we have to change our ways of thinking and acting. Most people now recognise that we have to be capable of adapting quickly as new and uncertain circumstances emerge: this capability will need to exist at personal, group, community, regional, national and international levels, all at the...