Building Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships to Promote Farmer Experimentation and Innovation in Ghana
In the mid-1990s, various organizations concerned with agricultural development in northern Ghana sought ways to promote joint research, extension, advocacy and learning with farmers as equal partners. They were disillusioned with the conventional...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/11/5547855/building-multi-stakeholder-partnerships-promote-farmer-experimentation-innovation-ghana http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10763 |
| Summary: | In the mid-1990s, various organizations
concerned with agricultural development in northern Ghana
sought ways to promote joint research, extension, advocacy
and learning with farmers as equal partners. They were
disillusioned with the conventional agricultural
modernization and transfer-of technology approach which all
of them had tried to implement but with little success. They
had recognized the need to build on the indigenous knowledge
(IK) and initiatives of smallholder farmers in order to
develop LEISA (Low-External-Input and Sustainable
Agriculture) technologies and to strengthen farmers'
capacities to interact with formal research and development (R&D). |
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