TY - BOOK AU - Chambers, Robert TI - Challenging the professions : : frontiers for rural development SN - 1853392081 U1 - 333.001 CHA PY - 1993/// CY - London PB - Intermediate Technology Publications KW - Project design KW - Rural development KW - Rural regions Development N1 - Includes index; Normal professionalism, new paradigms and development Managing rural development: procedures, principles and choices Project selection for poverty-focused rural development: simple is optimal Health, agriculture, and rural poverty: why season matter Farmer-first: a practical paradigm for the third agriculture Normal professionalism and the early project process: problems and solutions Thinking about NGOs' priorities: additionality and spread The state and rural development: ideologies and an agenda for the 1990s N2 - Challenging the Professions has been written and compiled for all those who are professionally concerned with rural poverty and development, in government services, NGOs, universities, training and research institutes and aid agencies, in the South and the North, and in the peripheries and the cores. In addressing the themes, the eight chapters are self-contained and convenient for reading and teaching. The book has practical implications for practitioners, academics, policy-makers and researchers of all departments ER -