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Indigenous Knowledge Systems, The Cognitive Revolution, and Agricultural Decision Making Christina H. Gladwin Christina H. Gladwin is Associate Professor in the Food and Resource Economics Department at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Her research interests include the cognitive relationship between norms, plans, and decision processes and large-scale shifts in norms and choice. The research for this paper was initiated while she was a Rockefeller post-doe assigned to the International Fertilizer Development Center. ABSTRACT: Increasingly, it is acceptedwisdomfor agricultural scientists to get feedbackfrom indigenous peoples--peas- ants--about new improved seeds and biotechnologies before their official releasefrom the experiment station. What is not yet accepted udsdom is the importance of cognitive science to research onfarmer decision making, especially of the type Why dont they adopt. In this paper, the impact of the cognitive revolution on models offarmer decision making is described, and decision making models before and after the cognitive revolution are contrasted. An example of a decision model after the cognitive revolution is given by the Malawi farmers decision whether to use chemicalfertilizers or organic fertilizers or both. Results of testing the model show that in Malawi, smallholdsrs lack of capital and credit are more important factors constraining use of chemicalfertilizers than are indigenous beliefs in organicfertilizers orfears of a future dependency on chemicals. The schoolofthought now dubbed IKS, indigen- risks, to make a living (Brokensha, Warren and ous knowledge systems, aims to elicit the expert Werner, 1980). Farming systems programs in in- s