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African Crop Science Journal
African Crop Science Society
ISSN: 1021-9730 EISSN: 1021-9730
Vol. 4, No. 1, 1996, pp. 115-125
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Bioline Code: cs96048
Full paper language: English
Document type: Symposium
Document available free of charge
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African Crop Science Journal, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1996, pp. 115-125
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Farmers' Participation in the Adaptation of IPM Technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Experiences from Kenya
Chitere, P.O. & Kiros, F.G.
Abstract
Participation of resource-limited farmers in agricultural
research projects in ways that can help ensure the adoption
and sustenance of farm technologies is a challenge for most
agricultural research agencies. The Interactive Socio-economic
Research for Bio-intensive Pest Management (ISERIPM) project
is an adaptive research project which, among other things,
explores methods of involving farmers in various phases of its
implementation. The involvement is based on the ICIPE's
approach of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) technology
development which provides for minimal involvement at
on-station trials, somewhat increased involvement at on-farm
researcher managed trials, and a high level of involvement at
on-farm farmer managed trials. At on-station trials which were
carried out in 1993, farmers' participation was restricted to
evaluation of some of the IPM components which included maize
and sorghum cultivars and various forms of intercropping. The
sites for the on-farm trials (4 sub-locations and 8 villages),
and 89 farmers as participants were selected following GIS
characterisation of the research districts of Kwale and Kilifi
on the basis of agro-ecological and socio-economic conditions,
and macro-, village- and household-level surveys. In
subsequent meetings, members of the chosen villages selected 8
Trial Farmers (TFs)- one per village from among those chosen
as project farmers. The rest of the farmers who met the
selection criteria were termed non-trial participating farmers
(NTPFs) and participated in the various educational activities
of the researcher managed trials in 1994. In 1995, all of the
farmers became participants in the farmer-managed on-farm
trials.
Keywords
Adaptive research, farmers' participation, IPM technologies
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Chitere, P.O. & Kiros, F.G.
Résumé
La participacion de petits fermiers aux projects agricoles
dans des conditions qui leur assurent l'adoption et la
durabilite des technologies agricoles est un defi pour la
plupart d 'agences de recherche en agriculture. La recherche
socio-economique interactive pour la gestion biologique
intensive des insectes nuisibles est un projet de recherche
adaptative qui explore entre autres des methodes associant les
fermiers dans les diverses phases de son application. Cette
participation est basee sur le concept propre a l'ICIPE, le
developpement technologique de lutte dirigee (IPM), qui ne
requiert qu'une supervision minimale du chercheur sur le
terrain dans les essais experimentaux. Pour les essais en
station experimentale qui ont ete menes en 1993, la
participation des fermiers etait reduite a l'evaluation de
quelques composants IPM concernant la culture du mai's et du
sorgho et quelques formes de variees de cultures mixtes. Les
sites des essais sur le terrain (localites et 8 villages) et
89 fermiers comme participants potentiels ont ete choisis en
fonction des caracteristiques obtenues au moyen de GIS et
comprenant les districts de Kwaie et Kilifi, en fonction de
leurs conditions agro-ecologiques et socio-economiques, et sur
base d'enquetes sur l'importance du village et sa composition.
Lors des reunions ulterieures, les membres des villages
pressentis ont choisi 8 fermiers pour les essais, un par
village parmi ceux designes comme acteurs du projet. Le reste
des fermiers qui ont satisfait aux criteres de selection sont
appeles fermiers non-participants aux essais et ont pris part
aux diverses activites d'education du chercheur et ont gere
les essais pendant l'annee 1994. Au cours de l'annee 1995,
tousles fermiers ont participe aux essais dans les champs.
Mots Clés
Recherche adaptive, la participation de fermiers, technologies de lutte integree
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