Reference : A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assess Smallholder Farmers’ Adoption of New Technolog...

	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Sociology & social sciences Life sciences : Agriculture & agronomy Life sciences : Multidisciplinary, general & others Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Anthropology Social & behavioral sciences, psychology : Multidisciplinary, general & others
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/51800

Title :	A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assess Smallholder Farmers’ Adoption of New Technologies in Development Interventions
Language :	English
Author, co-author :	Kapgen, Diane [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Humanities (DHUM) >]
	Roudart, Laurence [Université Libre de Bruxelles - ULB]
Publication date :	Jun-2022
Journal title :	European Journal of Development Research
Publisher :	Palgrave Macmillan
Peer reviewed :	Yes (verified by ORBilu)
ISSN :	0957-8811
e-ISSN :	1743-9728
Keywords :	[en] Analytical framework, Innovation adoption, Agroecology, Burkina Faso, Farmer groups, Farming system, Power asymmetry, Social learning
Abstract :	[en] In spite of decades of research, the complexity of new technology uptake by smallholder farmers in the context of development interventions is still little understood. In order to unravel the motives for, and barriers to, technology adoption, we propose a multidisciplinary qualitative framework that expands the Sustainable Livelihoods Framework with the agronomic Agrarian system approach and the Development anthropology-based ECRIS (Rapid Collective Inquiry for the Identification of Conflicts and Strategic Groups) approach. Such a framework allows to analyze smallholder farmers’ livelihoods, agricultural activities from an ecological cum technical cum economic point of view, and social learning processes involving power relationships. Its use is exemplified by studying the adoption of stone bunds in an agroecological development program in Burkina Faso. Many farmers cannot adopt this technology fully because of agricultural production system or livelihood shaped barriers, and because of power relationships bearing on the technology uptake process.
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/10993/51800
DOI :	10.1057/s41287-022-00548-8
Other URL :	https://rdcu.be/cQKC9

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