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Original Articles

Development, research and participation: Towards a critique of participatory rural appraisal methods

Pages 805-814 | Received 01 Jul 1994, Accepted 01 Nov 1994, Published online: 27 Feb 2008

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  • I would like to thank Catriona Macleod, John Reynolds and Sheona Shackleton of the University of the Witwatersrand Rural Facility and two anonymous readers for their useful comments on the article. Thanks are also due to Isak Niehaus of the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand for his suggestions in the original formulation of this article.
  • University of the Witwatersrand Rural Facility.

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