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2. A hierarchy of needs for achieving impact in international research for development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Butler, James R.A. (author), Darbas, Toni (author), Addison, Jane (author), Bohensky, Erin L. (author), Carter, Lucy (author), Cosijn, Michaela (author), Maru, Yiheyis T. (author), Stone-Jovicich, Samantha (author), Williams, Liana J. (author), and Rodriguez, Luis C. (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Published:
- International: CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria, Australia
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 18 Document Number: D10513
- Notes:
- 217 pages., Pages 109-129 in Heinz Schandl and Lain Walker (eds.), Social science and sustainability. CSIRO Publishing, Clayton South, Victoria,Australia. 2017. 217 pages.
3. Assessing research impact on poverty: the importance of farmers' perspectives
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Kristjanson, P (author), Place, F (author), Franzel, F (author), Thornton, P.K. (author), and International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya International Centre for Research on Agroforestry, Nairobi, Kenya
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-02-23
- Published:
- Kenya: Science Direct
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10958
- Journal Title:
- Agricultural Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 72(1) : 73-92
- Notes:
- 20 pages, via online journal, In this paper we provide evidence to show that farmers' perspectives on poverty processes and outcomes are critical in the early stages of evaluating impact of agricultural research on poverty. We summarize lessons learned from farmer impact assessment workshops held in five African locations, covering three agro-ecological zones and five different agroforestry and livestock technologies arising from collaborative national–international agricultural research. Poverty alleviation is a process that needs to be understood before impact can be measured. Workshops such as those we describe can help researchers to identify farmers' different ways of managing and using a technology and likely effects, unanticipated impacts, major impacts to pursue in more quantitative studies, the primary links between agricultural technology and poverty, and key conditioning factors affecting adoption and impact that can be used to stratify samples in more formal analyses. Farmer workshops inform other qualitative and quantitative impact assessment methods. We discuss the linkage of farmer-derived information with GIS-based approaches that allow more complete specification of recommendation domains and broader-scale measurement of impact.
4. Building institutions for endogenous development: using local knowledge as a bridge
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Grade, Jeanne T. (author), Tabuti, John R.S. (author), and Van Damme, Patrick (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Uganda
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D01261
- Notes:
- Pages 255-266 in Pascal C. Sanginga, Ann Waters-Bayer, Susan Kaaria, Jemimah Njuki and Chesha Wettasinha (Eds.), Innovation Africa: enriching farmers' livelihoods. Earthscan, London, England. 405 pages.
5. Introduction: Achieving technology adoption and achieving Extension impact: A working group success story
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Marble, S. Christopher (author) and West, Todd P. (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2017-12
- Published:
- United States: American Society for Horticultural Science
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 11 Document Number: D10343
- Journal Title:
- HortTechnology
- Journal Title Details:
- 27(6) : 757-758
- Notes:
- 2 pages., Via online journal., Multistate collaborations enable extension professionals to reach their audience across a region with similar production challenges. The objective of this article is to introduce the three proceeding manuscripts delivered at the American Society of Horticultural Sciences annual conference in Atlanta, GA, as part of a workshop entitled “Advancing Technology Adoption and Achieving Extension Impact: A Working Group Success Story.” Topics discussed in the following manuscripts include the development of a multistate working group and the advantages associated with participation, development and impact of book or electronic book publications, and survey results from more traditional hands-on workshops. The goal of this workshop was to provide guidance to others who wish to establish multistate, multidisciplinary collaborative teams as well as use new education formats.