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Agriculture is considered as the backbone economy both in developing and underdeveloped countries. Therefore, it constitutes a critical concern for policymakers, development practitioners and academicians at all levels: local/regional, national and global. There lies a constitutive linkage between agricultural technology on the one hand and globalization on the other recent times.

The current volume titled Agriculture, Technology and Globalization: A Social Capital Perspective examines the issue of agriculture especially agricultural extension and transfer of technology in the context of globalization from a social capital perspective. The book comes as a thorough reading in theoretical-cum-empirical knowledge of social capital and agricultural research and extension. It represents a modest endeavour to combine book view and field view of agricultural and technology and social capital. Based on insights from the field, it critically examines the local experiment on global issue.

The book has got the potential for a wider readership across disciplines – sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, economics and environmental science.

The book is also a meaningful reference for the practitioners of development studies, natural resource management and agricultural research and extension. Students, researchers, policy makers and practitioners in the domain of agricultural research and extension will certainly benefit from the volume. Rooted both on empirical and conceptual insights, the book may serve as an essential guide to one of the most challenging discourses of our times.