Peasants, farmers and scientists: a chronicle of tropical agricultural science in the twentieth century

Abstract

One part of the cover shows a former 'pioneer' from one of the Dutch polders (Noordoostpolder), Henk te Raa, ploughing with two 'Belgian' horses on the enactment of a traditional farm called 'Op d'n Akker' (www.opdnakker.nl),owned by the van Oorschot family.The other half shows a farmer in southwest Nigeria in a field where he is testing a new crop, soybeans, among traditional crops in the area -maize, cocoyamsand in the background cassava.