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Project

Agricultural Development and the Belgian Congo: the Institut National pour l’Etude Agronomique du Congo belge
Code
01CD00224
Duration
01 March 2024 → 28 February 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • African history
    • Modern and contemporary history
    • History not elsewhere classified
Keywords
agriculture history of science African history colonial history development studies
 
Project description
 

In my thesis I want to tease out and examine the mutual relationship between science and
development in the Belgian colonial context. Science became a mainstay of development discourses
and practices, while development problems informed scientific programmes. How exactly did this work
in Belgian colonial policy? My case study in this project is INEAC, the National Institute for Agronomy
in Belgian Congo, during the years 1930-1970