TY - JOUR
KW - agriculture
KW - conservation
KW - sustainability
KW - participatory research
KW - forestry
KW - soil erosion
KW - rice
KW - swiddens
KW - resource management
KW - slash and burn
KW - labor
KW - farmer knowledge
KW - farmer participation
KW - farmer practice
KW - upland farming
KW - adoption
KW - diagnosis and design
AU - S. Fujisaka
AB - <p>On-farm research and development projects in SE Asia&#39;s uplands have addressed problems of ecosystems degradation. Farmer adoption, however, of land conservation technologies has generally not resulted or has not been sustainable. This paper examines four agroforestry projects and two policy approaches meant to protect upland resources. Promoted innovations and farmer adoption are described. Six lessons are reemphasized:</p><ul><li>problem identification and prioritization require great care;</li><li>farmer technical approaches to problems and their underlying technical knowledge should be carefully considered;</li><li>appropriateness of technical innovations to target populations and environments should be continually evaluated;</li><li>farmer participation in the adaptation of a &#39;menu of technical offerings efficiently combines researcher-farmer inputs;</li><li>research or implementation policies should be reevaluated as adoption gets underway; and</li><li>incentives need careful thought.</li></ul><p>Overall, variable scale diagnosis and design that is unbiased towards pre-selected technologies is needed. Lessons learned contributed to farmer-participatory agroforestry research being conducted in an upland rice-based system in the Philippines. (author)</p>
AN - 91-01504; 93-03394
BT - Agroforestry Systems
C1 - Agroforest Syst
C6 - 0167-4366; 1572-9680
DA - 10/1989
DB - link.springer.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
DO - 10.1007/BF00168259
IS - 2
LA - English
N2 - <p>On-farm research and development projects in SE Asia&#39;s uplands have addressed problems of ecosystems degradation. Farmer adoption, however, of land conservation technologies has generally not resulted or has not been sustainable. This paper examines four agroforestry projects and two policy approaches meant to protect upland resources. Promoted innovations and farmer adoption are described. Six lessons are reemphasized:</p><ul><li>problem identification and prioritization require great care;</li><li>farmer technical approaches to problems and their underlying technical knowledge should be carefully considered;</li><li>appropriateness of technical innovations to target populations and environments should be continually evaluated;</li><li>farmer participation in the adaptation of a &#39;menu of technical offerings efficiently combines researcher-farmer inputs;</li><li>research or implementation policies should be reevaluated as adoption gets underway; and</li><li>incentives need careful thought.</li></ul><p>Overall, variable scale diagnosis and design that is unbiased towards pre-selected technologies is needed. Lessons learned contributed to farmer-participatory agroforestry research being conducted in an upland rice-based system in the Philippines. (author)</p>
PY - 1989
RN - 91-01504 is a 19 pp. manuscript; 93-03394 published in Agroforestry Systems
SP - 141
EP - 153
ST - The need to build upon farmer practice and knowledge
T2 - Agroforestry Systems
TI - The need to build upon farmer practice and knowledge: Reminders from selected upland conservation projects and policies
UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00168259
VL - 9
ER -