Identifying technology innovations for marginalized smallholders-A conceptual approach

Mohammad Malek, Franz W. Gatzweiler and Joachim von Braun

Technology in Society, 2017, vol. 49, issue C, 48-56

Abstract: This paper adds a contribution in the existing literature in terms of theoretical and conceptual background for the identification of idle potentials of marginal rural areas and people by means of technological and institutional innovations. The approach follows ex-ante assessment for identifying suitable technology and institutional innovations for marginalized smallholders in marginal areas-divided into three main parts (mapping, surveying and evaluating) and several steps. Finally, it contributes to the inclusion of marginalized smallholders by an improved way of understanding the interactions between technology needs, farming systems, ecological resources and poverty characteristics in the different segments of the poor, and to link these insights with productivity enhancing technologies.

Keywords: Ex-ante approach; Marginality hotspots; Technological and institutional innovations; Green revolution; Small holders' potentials; Business plan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2017.03.002

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