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| Name | Promoting Farmer Innovation |
| Description | Critchley W. 1999. Promoting Farmer Innovation, Harnessing local environmental knowledge in East Africa. Published in partnership between: UNDP - Office to Combat Desertification and Drought (UNSO/SEED/BDP) and Sida's Regional Land Management Unit.# This booklet has its origins in a programme entitled ‘Promoting Farmer Innovation’ (PFI) and specifically in a sub-regional workshop held under PFI, in Dodoma, Tanzania between 23 and 25 February 1999. The objectives of that workshop were given by Mr.Dumea, Head of the Soil Conservation and Land Use Planning Section of the Ministry of Agriculture, Tanzania as: to exchange experience between the three countries (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda);# to assess progress of PFI at its mid-term point;# to discuss specific issues, including: monitoring and evaluation, scaling up the programme, identification of farmer innovators, gender etc;# to assemble material for booklet on farmer innovation.The final objective is thus the basis for this booklet, which seeks to take the lessons of the programme so far, and to set these in the more general context of ‘farmer innovation’, for we believe that there is tremendous potential in using this untapped resource in the fields of research and development. Potential is a key word here: the project is young, and despite considerable early strides, and all round enthusiasm, it does not yet claim to have set out a cast-iron case. For example, though many fascinating and undoubtedly effective innovations have been uncovered, these have yet to be scientifically validated. Neither is the ‘vision’ complete: we are still working out how local innovation can best be harnessed. To what extent can the approach be integrated into on-going rural research and extension systems in Africa? |
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