| Sumario: | This paper argues that opportunities for reducing poverty, improving social inclusion,
and influencing policy and institutional changes are being missed as a result of not
learning sufficiently from development practitioners who have been effective in
bringing about positive changes in the past. Cautionary tales, positive deviance,
innovations systems and aid ethnographic literature is reviewed. Three agricultural
and natural resources case studies of positive experiences are described. These cover
the spread of bamboo tubewells in eastern Bihar, changes in rice research policy and
the rice innovation system in Nepal, and the spread of groups and group based
organisations and federations in Nepal. These are used to illustrate how institutional
innovations at macro levels came about and gave rise to positive development
outcomes. Implications for innovations theory and for rural development practice are
discussed.
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