Abstract
Previous knowledge management research in the agriculture sector has largely explored homogeneous knowledge networks, mainly focusing on farmers and the links and relationships they hold within their farming communities. This framing of the sector reproduces a hegemonic view and ignores the fact that the typical agriculture sector is heterogeneous in nature, encompassing diverse knowledge actors, who may hold both contradicting and/or mutually supporting knowledge. This study acknowledges that there is a general failure of scholarly and policy attention in capturing the essential dimensions of the agriculture sector as a social space with heterogeneous knowledge actors. The authors present an empirical analysis of the social space of Uganda’s agriculture sector using sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s framework, and explain the positionings of the heterogeneous knowledge actors within the sector and the resultant relations among actors in the sector. The analysis provides the much needed foundation for agriculture knowledge management research efforts in influencing an agriculture sustainability logic among the agriculture knowledge actors in Uganda. The study also provides guidance to knowledge management researchers in Uganda and similar contexts on how explore heterogenous agriculture knowledge (both formal and informal) for the benefit of sustainable agriculture practices.
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Human Impacts and Responsibility
KEYWORDS
KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, AGRICULTURE, AGRICULTURE KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT, FARMING
