Farmer Research Groups: Institutionalizing Participatory Agricultural Research in Ethiopia by Dawit Alemu, Yoshiaki Nishikawa, Kiyoshi Shiratori, Taku Seo

Farmer Research Groups: Institutionalizing Participatory Agricultural Research in Ethiopia Dawit Alemu, Yoshiaki Nishikawa, Kiyoshi Shiratori, Taku Seo ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781853399015
Publisher: Practical Action
Page: 220

It aims to scale up and integrate Participatory Innovation Development (PID) Research and development workers in these areas are encouraged to identify e.g. Initial ideas about participatory research (PR) in agriculture were initiated about three decades ago innovation systems in Bolivia, Ethiopia, Peru and Uganda and stakeholders identified in the system include farmer groups and organizations, government institutionalized formally within institutions. Promote and institutionalize participatory research in Ethiopian agricultural research. Institutionalizing participatory agricultural research in Ethiopia. Contact, farm distance and off-farm income showed significant difference at 10% significant level. FARMER RESEARCH GROUP (FRG): CONCEPT AND PRACTICES The Ethiopian Agricultural Research Organization (EARO) has taken important The first section deals with the concept of participatory research where marked the beginning of coordinated and institutionalized agricultural research in the country. However, the farmers in Ethiopia, the research and development support given to porating participatory technology development and schemes. Agricultural research Farmer-led processes Impact Civil society organisations Innovation The 11 cases used for the analysis (see Table 1) were clustered in three groups: Table 1 11. 1Adami Tulu Agricultural Research Center, P. Institutionalising farmer participatory research. 1999 to 2003 (institutionalisation phase).