Participatory technology development in agricultural mechanisation in Nepal: how it happened and lessons learned
Gurung Goodrich, Chanda Justice, Scott Stephen Biggs, Stephen Ganesh Sah, Ganesh
Gurung Goodrich, Chanda
Justice, Scott
Stephen Biggs, Stephen
Ganesh Sah, Ganesh
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2008-08-01
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5
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International Wheat and Maize Improvement Centre (CIMMYT) projects on new resource-conservation technologies (RCTs) in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of Nepal aimed to strengthen equity of access, poverty reduction, and gender orientation in current rural mechanisation processes - more specifically, to promote machine-based resource conservation and drudgery-reduction technologies among smallholder farmers. These projects, together with other projects and other actors, gave rise to an informal 'coalition' project, which used participatory technology development (PTD) approaches, where farmers, engineers, scientists, and other partners worked towards equitable access to new RCTs. This experience showed that PTD projects need to be flexible, making use of learning and change approaches. Once successful adoption is occurring, then what? Such projects need to ensure that everyone is benefiting in terms of social inclusion and equity; this might necessitate new unforeseen work.<p>This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p>
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Development in Practice
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Operationalising Participatory Research and Gender Analysis
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18
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4 & 5
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0961-4524
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1364-9213