32 min
Dangerous Assumptions #3 Food Security: Whose Knowledge Counts? Dangerous Assumptions
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- Non-Profit
In this episode we examine the assumption : “Scientifically proven knowledge has the greatest value for improving food and nutrition security”
Dangerous or not? The assumptions we examine each time are ones guiding research, policy and practice on food and nutrition security.
In tackling this episode’s question we will highlight how different types of knowledge – scientific knowledge or knowledge from local farmers and formal and informal knowledge, for example, - are of value – or, arguably, even indispensable when trying to find the most suitable and effective solutions to the global challenge of achieving FNS for all.
The different types of knowledge are commonly linked to different knowledge holders, e.g. Western and Southern academics and researchers, private sector R&D, policy makers, farmers, indigenous people, women and men, elders and youths.
In conventional (research for) policy development, academic knowledge is privileged over other forms of knowledge. But is this right? And what are the risks of attributing more value to one form of knowledge over the other?
These are the questions we are addressing this time in the podcast. The podcast series is based on information from 75 research projects carried out in 27 low and middle income countries. Projects which reveal the complexity of contemporary development issues.
This time around we hear from research projects in Zambia, Benin and Brazil.
Dangerous Assumptions is funded by WOTRO - the Science for Global Development division of the Dutch Research Council.
In this episode we examine the assumption : “Scientifically proven knowledge has the greatest value for improving food and nutrition security”
Dangerous or not? The assumptions we examine each time are ones guiding research, policy and practice on food and nutrition security.
In tackling this episode’s question we will highlight how different types of knowledge – scientific knowledge or knowledge from local farmers and formal and informal knowledge, for example, - are of value – or, arguably, even indispensable when trying to find the most suitable and effective solutions to the global challenge of achieving FNS for all.
The different types of knowledge are commonly linked to different knowledge holders, e.g. Western and Southern academics and researchers, private sector R&D, policy makers, farmers, indigenous people, women and men, elders and youths.
In conventional (research for) policy development, academic knowledge is privileged over other forms of knowledge. But is this right? And what are the risks of attributing more value to one form of knowledge over the other?
These are the questions we are addressing this time in the podcast. The podcast series is based on information from 75 research projects carried out in 27 low and middle income countries. Projects which reveal the complexity of contemporary development issues.
This time around we hear from research projects in Zambia, Benin and Brazil.
Dangerous Assumptions is funded by WOTRO - the Science for Global Development division of the Dutch Research Council.
32 min