Author : Julian F. Gonsalves
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1552501817
Intended for aspiring and new practitioners of Participatory Research and Development (PR&D) as well as field-based researchers in developing countries. Highlights that agricultural research and development has become a joint approach to deal with diverse biophysical environments, multiple livelihood goals, rapid changes in local and global economies, and an expanded range for stakeholders over agriculture and natural resources.
Author : Christine Okali
Publisher : Intermediate Technology Publications
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
An introductio to farmer participatory research. Associated themes and concepts. Farmer participatory research in practice. Key issues in implementation. Analysis of current trends and practice. Monitoring and evaluation. Future directions: linking evaluation indicators to project desing.
Author : Janice Jiggins
Publisher : Guelph, Ont. : Department of Rural Extension Studies, University of Guelph
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Agricultural extension work
ISBN :
Author : Ian Scoones
Publisher : Practical Action Publishing
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Agriculture is an urgent global priority and farmers find themselves in the front line of some of the world's most pressing issues- climate change, globalization and food security. Twenty years ago, the Farmer First workshop held at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK, launched a movement to encourage farmer participation in agricultural research and development (R & D), responding to farmers' needs in complex, diverse, risk-prone environments, and promoting sustainable livelihoods and agriculture. Since that time, methodological, institutional and policy experiments have unfolded around the world. Farmer First Revisited returns to the debates about farmer participation in agricultural R & D and looks to the future.The book presents a range of experiences that highlight the importance of going beyond a focus on the farm to a wider innovation system, including market interactions as well as the wider institutional and policy environment. If, however, farmers are really to be put first, a politics of demand is required in order to shape the direction of these innovative systems.
Author : Sam Fujisaka
Publisher : CIAT
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN : 9586940098
Toward a new institutional model of farmer participation in research on natural resource management and germplasm improvement; Developing a natural resource management technology for a specific agroenvironment: Mucuna-maize rotation on the hillsides of northern honduras; Land use systems and dynamics in Pucallpa, Peru; Strategic systems research for the Latin American Savannas; Developing improved pasture systems for forest margins; Adapting participatory research methods for developing integrated crop management for cassava-based systems Northeast Brazil; Soil conservation strategies that take into account farmer perspectives; Developing sustainable cassava production systems with farmers in Asia; Developing forage tecnologies with smallholders in East Kalimantan, Indonesia; Farmer's independent experimentation with green manure and/or cover crops: A component of participatory research for improving Ugandan Farming Systems; Designing sustainable, commercial, farmer seed production systems in Africa: Case studies From Uganda; Institucional Innovation as an entry for system-level technological change; Participatory sysems research toward the future.
Author : Henry Bernstein
Publisher : Kumarian Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 19,10 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1565493567
Henry Bernstein argues that class dynamics should be the starting point of any analysis of agrarian change. Providing an accessible introduction to agrarian political economy, he shows clearly how the argument for "bringing class back in" provides an alternative to inherited conceptions of the agrarian question. He also ably illustrates what is at stake in different ways of thinking about class dynamics and the effects of agrarian change in today's globalized world. CONTENTS: Introduction: The Political Economy of Agrarian Change. Production and Productivity. Origins of Early Development of Capitalism. Colonialism and Capitalism. Farming and Agriculture, Local and Global. Neoliberal Globalization and World Agriculture. Capitalist Agriculture and Non-Capitalist Farmers? Class Formation in the Countryside. Complexities of Class.
Author : Mauricio R. Bellon
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Agricultural research managers
ISBN : 9706480668
An introduction to farmer participatory research; An overview of the projects used as examples in this manual; Participation: identifying the places, people, and procedures for research; Diagnosis of farmers conditions; Evaluation of current and new technological options; Assessing the impact of new technologies.
Author : M. B. Douthwaite
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 19,44 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781856499729
Why do some technologies spread while others do not? What are the consequences of top-down diffusion strategies? What are the disadvantages of instant patents? In answering these questions, this book forms a 'how to do it' guide to innovation management.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 33,33 MB
Release : 2002-03-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309170346
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) requested that the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources of the National Research Council (NRC) convene a panel of experts to examine whether publicly funded agricultural research has influenced the structure of U.S. agriculture and, if so, how. The Committee to Review the Role of Publicly Funded Agricultural Research on the Structure of U.S. Agriculture was asked to assess the role of public-sector agricultural research on changes in the size and numbers of farms, with particular emphasis on the evolution of very-large-scale operations.
Author : Mauricio R. Bellon
Publisher : CIMMYT
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 27,45 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Plant breeding
ISBN : 970648096X
