development aid at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and its predecessors, 1950–2009
Bruno, Karl
(2016).
Exporting agrarian expertise.
Diss. (sammanfattning/summary)
Uppsala :
Sveriges lantbruksuniv.,
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae, 1652-6880
; 2016:59
ISBN 978-91-576-8620-6
eISBN 978-91-576-8621-3
[Doctoral thesis]
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Abstract
Agrarian expertise has been employed in the context of Swedish development aid since the 1950s. Throughout this time, the Swedish institutions of higher agrarian education—the Agricultural College, the College of Forestry, and the Veterinary College, in 1977 merged to form the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences—have played important roles. In this dissertation I consider three problems with respect to these institutions’ involvement in development aid: (1) How and why did actors at the three colleges begin framing their expertise in a development context? (2) How did Swedish agrarian experts approach the problem of development in contexts about which they had little prior knowledge? (3) How and why did a long-term institutional collaboration evolve between the agrarian institutions of higher learning and the Swedish development aid authorities, and what were its characteristics?
The study follows actors and their standpoints through three different aid projects: international courses in animal reproduction at the Veterinary College first planned and held in the mid-1950s; the planning and implementation of the Chilalo Agricultural Development Unit in the 1960s and 1970s; and SLU’s support to higher forestry education in Ethiopia in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. It also examines the growth and subsequent decline of a continuous institutional collaboration between the institutions of higher agrarian education and SIDA, the Swedish government agency responsible for development aid. Based on my findings, I argue that the framing of Swedish agrarian expertise as relevant to the developing countries—particularly at the Agricultural College in the 1960s—was part of a broader attempt to widen the scope of agrarian science in Sweden in response to social change at home. At the same time, the development strategies proposed by the Swedish experts were anchored in the particulars of the Swedish agrarian context. This made them attuned to the local adaptation of technologies and to the value of practical knowledge but less sensitive to the societal contexts and social effects of their interventions. Their attempts to bring their knowledge to bear on the developing world also helped create a long-lasting institutionalized relationship between SLU (and the three colleges before it) and the Swedish development aid authorities, through which SLU exercised influence on much of Sweden’s agrarian development aid from the mid-1960s to the early 1990s.
Authors/Creators: | Bruno, Karl |
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Title: | Exporting agrarian expertise |
Subtitle: | development aid at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and its predecessors, 1950–2009 |
Series Name/Journal: | Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae |
Year of publishing : | 2016 |
Depositing date: | 13 May 2016 |
Number: | 2016:59 |
Number of Pages: | 377 |
Place of Publication: | Uppsala |
Publisher: | Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences |
ISBN for printed version: | 978-91-576-8620-6 |
ISBN for electronic version: | 978-91-576-8621-3 |
ISSN: | 1652-6880 |
Language: | English |
Publication Type: | Doctoral thesis |
Full Text Status: | Public |
Agris subject categories.: | B Geography and history > B50 History E Economics, development, and rural sociology > E14 Development economics and policies |
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 6 Humanities > 601 History and Archaeology > History |
Agrovoc terms: | rural development, development aid, technology transfer, agricultural colleges, universites, development agencies, agricultural sciences, development policies, forestry, veterinary sciences, reproduction, sweden, ethiopia, india, developing countries |
Keywords: | animal reproduction, Chilalo Agricultural Development Unit, development aid, Ethiopia, forestry education, India, rural development, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, technology transfer, Wondo Genet |
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3432 |
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3432 |
ID Code: | 13367 |
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap |
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development (LTJ, LTV) > Dept. of Urban and Rural Development |
Deposited By: | Karl Bruno |
Deposited On: | 13 May 2016 13:05 |
Metadata Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2020 13:41 |
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