Farmer participation in research
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- Incorporating gender issues into plant breeding approaches
- ( Participatory Research and Gender Analysis Program, CGIAR , 2012)
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This paper aims to analyse methods and approaches currently used within participatory plant breeding (PPB) with respect to gender issues and to draw out the implications of researchers’ exper...
- Zambian farmers don’t see conservation agriculture as a climate change adaptation strategy
- ( P.H. Nyanga;F.H. Johnsen;J.B. Aune / Canadian Center of Science and Education , 2011)
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Actors involved in promoting conservation agriculture have often not taken into account the perceptions of smallholder farmers of climate change and conservation agriculture as an adaptation strate...
- Developing free drought-tolerant varieties allow African farmers unwilling to pay market prices to access the potential benefits
- ( T.J. Dalton;M. Yesuf;L. Muhammad / AgEcon Search , 2011)
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Recent projections on the impact of climate change argue that eastern and southern Africa will experience dramatic reductions in maize yields by mid‐century. This research paper argues that such st...
- Understanding farmers’ concerns about the participatory process encourages sustained technology adoption in Zimbabwe
- ( T. Pedzisa;I. Minde;S. Twomlow / AgEcon Search , 2010)
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Participatory technology development has been used for quite some time, but little is known about how farmers perceive participatory methods and processes. This paper argues that understanding farm...
- Participatory farming management methods and their uses
- ( P. Dorward;D. Shepherd;M. Galpin / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2007)
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Central to the use of Participatory Farming Management (PFM) methods is the understanding that the farmer is the decision maker and that he or she takes the risks associated with change, not the ad...
- Impact of climate change in South Africa: farmers' perceptions
- ( G. Gbetibouo (ed) / , 2009)
- This report outlines how climate change is expected to have serious environmental, economic, and social impacts in South Africa. It states that rural farmers, whose livelihoods depend on the use of na...
- Reviewing participatory mapping - what works and what doesn't
- ( J. Corbett / International Fund for Agricultural Development , 2009)
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Participatory mapping, commonly used in participatory development, plays an important role in helping marginalised groups by making visible the association between land and local com...
- Disseminating information to farmers: which is the best way?
- ( M. Gakuru (ed);K. Winters (ed);F. Stepman (ed) / Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa , 2009)
- This paper documents all known innovative farmer advisory services or systems, currently in design, in existence or recently completed in Africa. The report notes that currently most farmers’ in...
- Tracking an African agriculture development program: can marginal farmers particpate?
- ( Concern Worldwide , 2008)
- This report summarises efforts to monitor the process of engagement between stakeholders within the agriculture sector in Zambia on spending and policy development.Zambia is one the first countries on...
- Strengthening multi-stakeholder funding mechanisms for agricultural R&D
- ( W. Heemskerk (ed);B. Wennink (ed) / Royal Tropical Institute , 2005)
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