Participatory design of agroforestry systems: Developing farmer participatory research methods in Mexico

Jeremy Haggar, Alejandro Ayala, Blanca Díaz and Carlos Uc Reyes

Development in Practice, 2001, vol. 11, issue 4, 417-424

Abstract: Participatory research that combines the knowledge of farmers and researchers promotes the development of a variety of agroforestry options that may meet the various needs of different farmers, and thus exploits one of the greatest strengths of agroforestry - its plasticity. The design and evaluation of agroforestry systems with eight farmer research groups in south-east Mexico was conducted through surveys of individual production aims and limitations, and through group identification, testing, and analysis of production alternatives. Farmer trials were used as a basis for agroforestry development projects implemented by community and government organisations, thus disseminating technologies that had been tested and adapted by local farmers.

Date: 2001
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