Collective action and property rights for sustainable development
Local innovation is the key to sustainable improvement in agricultural production, natural resource management, and rural livelihood systems. One of the main lessons of participatory research is that involving stakeholders in the early stages of research and development leads to better targeting of technologies, a greater sense of local ownership, and often more economically secure livelihoods. Participatory research approaches have been shown to reduce the time between the initiation of research and the adoption of new technologies and to increase both the rate and speed of adoption.The process of participating in research can also have a significant impact on farmers’ human and social capital. Combining technical innovations with collective action initiatives has been shown to lead to substantial farmer benefits. A number of farmer-led research and extension (FRE) approaches incorporate collective action for different purposes and at different stages in the innovation process. Collective action can be useful in sharing knowledge, setting priorities, and experimenting with, evaluating, and disseminating technologies. Participatory research and collective action tend to reinforce one another.Where strong norms of collective action and social capital exist, they create a climate conducive to joint experimentation and sharing of innovation. Collective action can be instrumental in motivating participation, coordinating the actions of multiple resource users, spreading risks, managing environmental spillovers, and scaling up the benefits of participatory research.When seeded by external facilitation and scientific partnership, a carefully nurtured process of participation also has the potential to strengthen social networking, cooperation, and organization.
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Format: | Brief biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2004
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Subjects: | participatory approaches, sustainability, gender, |
Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/76148 |
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Summary: | Local innovation is the key to sustainable improvement in
agricultural production, natural resource management, and
rural livelihood systems. One of the main lessons of participatory
research is that involving stakeholders in the early stages
of research and development leads to better targeting of technologies,
a greater sense of local ownership, and often more
economically secure livelihoods. Participatory research
approaches have been shown to reduce the time between the
initiation of research and the adoption of new technologies
and to increase both the rate and speed of adoption.The
process of participating in research can also have a significant
impact on farmers’ human and social capital.
Combining technical innovations with collective action
initiatives has been shown to lead to substantial farmer benefits.
A number of farmer-led research and extension (FRE)
approaches incorporate collective action for different purposes
and at different stages in the innovation process. Collective
action can be useful in sharing knowledge, setting priorities, and
experimenting with, evaluating, and disseminating technologies.
Participatory research and collective action tend to
reinforce one another.Where strong norms of collective action
and social capital exist, they create a climate conducive to joint
experimentation and sharing of innovation. Collective action
can be instrumental in motivating participation, coordinating
the actions of multiple resource users, spreading risks,
managing environmental spillovers, and scaling up the benefits
of participatory research.When seeded by external facilitation
and scientific partnership, a carefully nurtured process of
participation also has the potential to strengthen social
networking, cooperation, and organization. |
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