Reluctant Partners? Non-Governmental Organizations, the State and Sustainable Agricultural Development

John Farrington and Anthony Bebbington are Research Fellows with, and Kate Wellard and David J. Lewis are associates of the Overseas Development Institute.

• 1 INTRODUCTION: MANY ROADS LEAD TO NGOs 2 CONCEPTS FOR ANALYSING NGO-STATE RELATIONSHIPS 3 NGOs AND AGRICULTURAL CHANGE: TECHNOLOGIES, MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND RESEARCH METHODS 4 NGOs AND THE RURAL POOR: PATRONAGE, PARTNERSHIP OR PARTICIPATION? 5 RELUCTANT PARTNERSHIPS, HOSTILE CONFRONTATIONS, OR PRODUCTIVE SYNERGIES? POSSIBILITIES FOR NGO-state INTERACTIONS 6 WHERE FROM, WHERE AT, WHERE NEXT?

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