- ISBN: 9781853396823 | 1853396826
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 5/31/2009
Twenty years ago, the Farmer First workshop held at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, launched a movement to encourage farmer participation in agricultural research and development (RD), responding to farmers needs in complex, diverse, risk-prone environments, and promoting sustainable livelihoods and agriculture.
Ian Scoones is a Professorial Fellow and John Thompson is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, IDS, UK.
| Figures | p. xi |
| Tables | p. xii |
| Boxes | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgements | p. xv |
| Abbreviations | p. xvii |
| Foreword | p. xix |
| Revisiting Farmer First | |
| Farmer First revisited: innovation for agricultural research and development | p. 3 |
| Challenges to strengthening agricultural innovation systems: where do we go from here? | p. 30 |
| Fostering Farmer First methodological innovation: organizational learning and change in international agricultural research | p. 39 |
| Systems of innovation | |
| Opening Note | p. 49 |
| Farmer participatory research and adaptive management | |
| Developing seed systems in Africa | p. 52 |
| Client-oriented breeding and seed supply | p. 57 |
| Learning from experience: potato innovation systems and participatory research | p. 61 |
| Action research with local forest users and managers: lessons from CIFOR's research on adaptive collaborative management | p. 66 |
| Co-management of rangeland resources in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region: involving farmers in the policy process | p. 71 |
| The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) as a system of agricultural innovation | p. 73 |
| Encounters, dialogues and learning alliances: the System of Rice Intensification in India | p. 82 |
| If farmers are first, do pastoralists come second? Political ecology and participation in central Mali | p. 88 |
| Engaging with markets and the private sector | |
| The First Mile experience: connecting farmers to markets | p. 92 |
| Linking learners: livestock marketing chain development in Kenya | p. 95 |
| Beyond the farmer and the farm: users' perspectives and agricultural livelihoods | p. 97 |
| Continuing improvement and innovation in the market chain of rootcrop chips | p. 101 |
| Community agro-enterprise development: experience from Uganda and Malawi | p. 106 |
| Enabling rural innovation in Africa | p. 111 |
| Public-private partnerships and developing-country agriculture | p. 116 |
| Including boxes on: Committing for the long term | p. 118 |
| African Agricultural Technology Foundation | p. 120 |
| The Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed) | p. 121 |
| The Monsanto Smallholder Programme | p. 124 |
| The politics of demand and organizational change | |
| Opening Note | p. 127 |
| Farmers' Organizations | |
| Fostering farmer-scientist research collaboration: the role of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers | p. 131 |
| Promoting farmer-centred research in Kenya | p. 132 |
| Advocacy coalitions to build participatory processes in the Altiplano: increasing human capacities to adapt to change | p. 134 |
| Farmers' movements and the struggle for food sovereignty in Latin America | p. 135 |
| Farmers' participation in policy advocacy processes in Bolivia | p. 137 |
| Beyond black and white: the National African Farmers' Union of South Africa | p. 140 |
| The politics of inclusion in African agricultural research and development | p. 141 |
| Networks and partnerships | |
| Building partnerships to promote local innovation processes | p. 144 |
| Including a box on: Promoting Farmer Innovation and Experimentation in the Sahel (PROFEIS) | p. 145 |
| Participatory Innovation Development in Ethiopia | p. 150 |
| Partnerships for action research | p. 153 |
| The DURAS project: funding research partnerships | p. 158 |
| Research involving multi-stakeholder partnerships | p. 161 |
| Learning to value LEISA: experience in global knowledge networking for Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture | p. 163 |
| Communicating farmers' knowledge: Agridape and Profeis experiences | p. 168 |
| Network, institution and movement: the case of the Honey Bee network | p. 169 |
| Food sovereignty: a farmer-led policy framework | p. 174 |
| Large public R&D organizations | |
| Farmer first or still last? Uneven institutional development in the Indian agricultural innovation system | p. 180 |
| Emergence of farmer-centred agricultural science and technology policy in China | p. 185 |
| Including a box on: The Farmer-Centred Research Network, China | p. 189 |
| Reflections on the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi) | p. 190 |
| Institutional learning and change in the Cgiar system | p. 195 |
| Learning selection revisited | p. 198 |
| New professionalism, learning and change | |
| Opening note | p. 205 |
| Extension: from diffusion to networks | |
| Strengthening rural extension | p. 207 |
| Institutionalizing values-based research: lessons from the Petrra Project, Bangladesh | p. 212 |
| Putting farmers first in Indonesia: the case of Farmer Field Schools | p. 215 |
| Farmer participatory research in northern Tanzania: Farm-Africa's experience | p. 218 |
| Facilitation for change: triggering emancipation and innovation in rural communities in South Africa | p. 220 |
| Crop management innovation and the economics of attention | p. 229 |
| Knowledge networks and farmer seed systems | p. 233 |
| Rethinking agricultural education | |
| Learning to make change: developing innovation and change competence in African universities | p. 238 |
| From marginal to normative: institutionalizing participatory epidemiology | p. 247 |
| Agricultural innovation for rural development: a Master's programme for professionals working in rural areas in Peru | p. 255 |
| Mainstreaming participatory rural development studies in China | p. 258 |
| Making trans-disciplinary science work for resource-poor farmers | p. 264 |
| Participation, paternalism and practicality: reconciling sustainability science and indigenous agendas | p. 268 |
| Power, progression and regression in learning for agriculture and development | p. 271 |
| Impact assessment and learning | |
| So what difference does it make? Assessing the outcomes and impacts of farmer participatory research | p. 276 |
| Monitoring for collective learning in rural resource management | p. 282 |
| Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis | p. 290 |
| Tracking the impact of policy task forces in Uganda | p. 293 |
| Using Participatory Impact Assessment (PIA) to inform policy: lessons from Ethiopia | p. 296 |
| Looking Forward | |
| The future of the Farmer First movement: towards an innovation alliance | p. 303 |
| List of participants and contributors | p. 311 |
| References | p. 323 |
| Index | p. 343 |
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