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Klara Fischer on why "technology is not scale-neutral"
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English - June 17, 2021 07:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsFood Arts Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In our discussion with Klara Fischer (associate professor in rural development at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences), we discuss how different smallholders in sub-Saharan Africa adopt and adapt different technologies, why new crop technologies are not scale-neutral, lessons to be learned from the Asian green revolution, and why it's important to work in interdisciplinary teams and be aware of the boundaries of our own knowledge.
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