A Multidisciplinary Approach to Assess Smallholder Farmers' Adoption of New Technologies in Development Interventions

Diane Kapgen and Laurence Roudart

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Abstract: In spite of decades of research, the complexity of new technology uptake by small-holder 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 Con-flicts and Strategic Groups) approach. Such a framework allows to analyze small-holder farmers’ livelihoods, agricultural activities from an ecological cum technical cum economic point of view, and social learning processes involving power rela-tionships. Its use is exemplified by studying the adoption of stone bunds in an agro-ecological development program in Burkina Faso. Many farmers cannot adopt this technology fully because of agricultural production system or livelihood shaped bar-riers, and because of power relationships bearing on the technology uptake process

Keywords: Agroecology; Analytical framework; Burkina Faso; Farmer groups; Farming system; Innovation adoption; Power asymmetry; Social learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-07-01
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Published in: European journal of development research (2022)

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