Learning from the positive to reduce rural poverty: institutional innovations in agricultural and natural resources research and development
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....
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75669 |
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| author | Biggs, Stephen D. |
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| description | 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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| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2005 |
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| spelling | CGSpace756692025-08-18T06:39:21Z Learning from the positive to reduce rural poverty: institutional innovations in agricultural and natural resources research and development Biggs, Stephen D. poverty innovation gender 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. 2005 2016-06-10T00:11:28Z 2016-06-10T00:11:28Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75669 en Open Access application/pdf Biggs, Stephen. 2005. Learning from the positive to reduce rural poverty: institutional innovations in agricultural and natural resources research and development. Paper presented at Impact Assessment Workshop, CIMMYT, Texcoco, Mexico, 19-21 October 2005. Texcoco, Mexico: CIMMYT. |
| spellingShingle | poverty innovation gender Biggs, Stephen D. Learning from the positive to reduce rural poverty: institutional innovations in agricultural and natural resources research and development |
| title | Learning from the positive to reduce rural poverty: institutional innovations in agricultural and natural resources research and development |
| title_full | Learning from the positive to reduce rural poverty: institutional innovations in agricultural and natural resources research and development |
| title_fullStr | Learning from the positive to reduce rural poverty: institutional innovations in agricultural and natural resources research and development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learning from the positive to reduce rural poverty: institutional innovations in agricultural and natural resources research and development |
| title_short | Learning from the positive to reduce rural poverty: institutional innovations in agricultural and natural resources research and development |
| title_sort | learning from the positive to reduce rural poverty institutional innovations in agricultural and natural resources research and development |
| topic | poverty innovation gender |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/75669 |
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