Participation, learning and sustainability : emerging challenges for agricultural development.

There has been a recent growth in interest in participation. This paper examines the different forms of participation and argues that some of these do not lead to new ways of learning about the world and thus will not lead to sustainable agriculture. A new professionalism is required whereby professionals are more multi-disciplinary, more open to selecting methodologies to suit their needs from other disciplines and where proofessionals are prepared to work with those from other disciplines well as a wide range of non-scientific people.