19 pages., via online journal., There are about 500 million small-scale farms in low-income countries on the planet. Farmers have been slow to adopt a threefold set of sustainable agronomic practices known as “conservation agriculture” (CA) that have been shown to double productivity. Our study of a novel CA project in Nicaragua, organized based on principles that counter convention, may point to improved ways of understanding and managing sustainable innovations in low-income countries. In particular, by connecting core ideas from the innovation literature to the literature that explores the role of intermediaries such as NGOs, our case study suggests that the efficacy of NGOs to facilitate the adoption of sustainable innovations by small-scale farmers in these settings may be enhanced if NGOs employ non-centrist approaches in order to address the critical uncertainties associated with such innovations. We discuss how our findings contradict some of long-standing arguments in the literature, and their implications for theory and practice.
Chambers, Robert (author), Ghildyal, B.P. (author), and Chambers: Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK; Ghildyal: ford Foundation, New Delhi, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1985
Published:
UK
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 94 Document Number: C07298
Alonge, Adewale J. (author / Department of Agricultural Education and Studies, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07940
Notes:
abstracted from Ph.D. thesis, 1993; search through volume, In: Jacquelyn Deeds and Demetria Ford, eds. Summary of Research in Extension (1992-1993). Mississippi State, MS: Department of Agricultural Education and Experimental Statistics, Mississippi State University, July 1994. p. 114
Buccola, J.T. (author), Orden, D. (author), and University of Minnesota, Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics.; University of Minnesota, Dept. of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 52 Document Number: C00632
Findlay, Henry J. (author), Morris, Carlton E. (author), Oben, Mercy (author), Zabawa, Robert (author), and Vocational and Extension Education, Tuskegee University, Alabama
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1993
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 93 Document Number: C06984
Samy, Mohamed Mahmoud (author) and Swanson, Burton E. (author)
Format:
Proceedings
Publication Date:
2005-05-25
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 152 Document Number: C24582
Journal Title Details:
21
Notes:
Reviewed 9 August 2006, 11 p. Paper presented at the International Agricultural and Extension Education group's 21st annual conference May 25-31, 2005, in San Antonio, TX
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: Byrnes13a Document Number: C12523
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 195-209 in U.S. Agency for International Development, Proceedings of the workshop on social science research and the CRSPs, June 9-11, 1992, at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. Related to the Collaborative Research Support Programs (CRSP). 279 p.
Gilbert, E.H. (author), Norman, D.W. (author), and Winch, F.E. (author)
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 51 Document Number: C00532
Notes:
Cited Reference, East Lansing, MI.: Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. 147 pp. (MSU Rural Development Paper No. 6, 1980). Microfiche
Located in a chronological file entitled "INTERPAKS - Newsletter" from the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois., From the International Programs records of the Agricultural Communications Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign., An invited reassessment by the author of a book, Hard Tomatoes and Hard Times, in which he faulted U.S. land grant universities for abandoning the original intended focus on serving small, low-resource farmers. Emphasized farmers' need for neutral, unbiased assessment of new, often very specialized, technologies. "...and at the same time they will need generalists who can assist in developing comprehensive, integrated farming systems that can depend on lessons learned decades ago as well as new knowledge."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 53 Document Number: C00796
Notes:
D. Hatesohl, University of Missouri, East Lansing, MI: Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. 44pp. (Agricultural Economics Report No. 372)
Acharya, B.V. (author / Department of Economics, South Gujarat University, Surat, India) and Department of Economics, South Gujarat University, Surat, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05036
