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dc.contributor.authorAndreas Neef, Andreas*
dc.contributor.editorEade, Deborahen
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-24T10:01:08Zen
dc.date.available2011-05-24T10:01:08Zen
dc.date.issued2008-08-01en
dc.identifier.issn0961-4524en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09614520802181632en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10546/130968en
dc.descriptionUntil recently, participatory and conventional approaches to agricultural research have been regarded as more or less antagonistic. This article presents evidence from three sub-projects of a Thai-Vietnamese-German collaborative research programme on 'Sustainable Land Use and Rural Development in Mountainous Regions of Southeast Asia', in which participatory elements were successfully integrated into conventional agricultural research as add-on activities. In all three sub-projects the costs of studying local knowledge or enhancing farmers' experimentation consisted of additional local personnel, opportunity costs of participating farmers' time, and travel costs. However, these participatory elements of the research projects constituted only a small fraction of the total costs. It may be concluded that conventional agricultural research can be complemented by participatory components in a cost-effective way, while producing meaningful benefits in terms of creating synergies by blending scientific and local knowledge, scaling up micro-level data, and highlighting farmers' constraints affecting technology adoption.<p>This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p>en
dc.format.extent13en
dc.format.mimetypePDFen
dc.language.isoEnglishen
dc.publisherOxfam GBen
dc.publisherRoutledgeen
dc.relation.urlhttp://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/integrating-participatory-elements-into-conventional-research-projects-measurin-130968
dc.subjectFood and livelihoods
dc.subjectApproach and methodology
dc.subjectEconomics
dc.titleIntegrating participatory elements into conventional research projects: measuring the costs and benefitsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.eissn1364-9213en
dc.identifier.journalDevelopment in Practiceen
oxfam.signoff.statusFor public use – can be shared outside Oxfamen
oxfam.subject.countryViet Namen
oxfam.subject.countryThailanden
oxfam.subject.countryGermanyen
oxfam.subject.keywordAgriculture
oxfam.subject.keywordDevelopment methods
oxfam.subject.keywordFinance
oxfam.subject.keywordDevelopment in Practice Journal
oxfam.subject.keywordDiP
prism.issuenameOperationalising Participatory Research and Gender Analysisen
prism.number4 & 5en
prism.volume18en
dc.year.issuedate2008en
dc.year.issuedate2008en


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