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New
IIRR Publication Highlights issues of Institutionalizing
Participatory Technology Development
IIRR, in partnership with ETC Ecoculture of the
Netherlands and the ACP-EU Technical Centre for
Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) have produced
a publication on participatory technology development.
Participatory approaches to research and extension
have received increasing attention in recent years,
but their application has been confined mainly to
specific projects outside of or on the margins of
the large formal institutions meant to serve agricultural
development. The challenge now is to integrate these
approaches into the day-to-day operations of such
institutions. In different parts of the world, pioneering
efforts are being made to address this challenge.
Some cases were documented and analyzed in an international
comparative study that culminated in a workshop
in late 2001 on “Advancing Participatory Technology
Development (PTD)” in the Philippines. In
2002, IIRR and ETC Ecoculture published a synthesis
of the study and workshop output, together with
abstracts of the cases, in the booklet “Participatory
Technology Development in agricultural improvement:
challenges for institutional integration”.
Now, a larger book has been compiled with edited
versions of selected case studies that describe
attempts to integrate PTD approaches into institutions
focusing on agricultural research, extension and
education. The following cases are included:
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Ejigu Jonfa et al: Institutionalizing
Farmer Participatory Research in Southern Ethiopia
- Hagmann
et al:
Learning process approaches in rural extension
in Southern Africa
- Hart
& Isaacs: Transforming research in
the deciduous fruit sector of South Africa
- Hoang
Hui Cai et al:
PTD in community-based forestry extension and
education in Vietnam
- Hocde
& Meneses:
Bringing the worlds of farmers, extension workers
and researchers together in Northern Costa Rica
- Joss
& Nadyrbek: PTD in rural extension
in Kyrgyzstan
- Majzoub:
Participatory development of the donkey-drawn
plough in Sudan
- Naidu
& van Walsum: Scaling up PTD for
sustainable agriculture in South India
- Opondo
et al: Monitoring participatory research
in NRM in the East African highlands
- Perera
& Sennema: Sustainable development through
PTD in Sri Lanka
- Sabourin
et al: Farmer-NGO partnership to enhance
agricultural innovation in Northeast Brazil
- Tchawa
et al:
The route of institutionalising PTD in Cameroon
An overview chapter places the cases within a
framework for operationalising institutional change
and highlights the lessons that can be applied
more widely. This collection of cases presented
in straightforward language and an attractive
layout will be a valuable source of ideas and
inspiration for development practitioners and
planners who seek to advance PTD within institutions
focusing on agricultural research, extension and
education.
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