The emergence of ‘political agronomy’ — a research agenda that interrogates the knowledge politics through which agronomic debates are constructed, shaped and contested — has added a new and important tool for the analysis of agricultural research and policy making in development contexts. This article seeks to advance the scope of political agronomy by providing an enhanced framework to link the analysis of agronomic knowledge production to the study of new agricultural technologies in practice. Using case studies of hybrid rice promotion in southern India and western Uganda, the article illustrates the power relations and unanticipated outcomes that accompanied the translation of agronomic research into agrarian settings characterized by pronounced social polarization and marked environmental transformations. These case studies affirm how the starkly uneven outcomes of technological change refract back into the politics of agronomic research and extension as both researchers and policy makers react to the unintended impacts of previous interventions when designing future agendas.

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政治农学的情境：印度和乌干达杂交稻的知识政治

“政治农学”的出现（研究议程质疑知识政治，通过它来构建，塑造和辩论农学辩论），为在发展背景下分析农业研究和制定政策增加了新的重要工具。本文旨在通过提供一个增强的框架来扩大政治农学的范围，以将农学知识生产的分析与实践中的新农业技术的研究联系起来。通过在印度南部和乌干达西部推广杂交水稻的案例研究，本文说明了伴随着农艺研究向以明显的社会两极分化和明显的环境转变为特征的农业环境的转化过程中的权力关系和意料之外的结果。