12.1 NGO/Non-State Actors
NGOs
are defined here as non-state development-oriented organizations. These are
mainly the west based NGOs that provide services either directly to
the rural poor or to grass-roots local organizations, and with the local branches of
international NGOs that enjoy varying degrees of autonomy. There exists wide diversity of origins and
philosophy. Some NGOs were set up by professionals or academics, other are based on
religious principles, on a broadly humanitarian culture, and yet others were
set up as quasi-consultancy concerns in response to recent donor-funding
initiatives. Their ideological orientations also differ widely in relation to
agricultural technology: many are concerned with low external input
agriculture, others pursue fundamentally organic approaches.
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