Assessing research impact on poverty: the importance of farmers’ perspectives
In this paper we provide evidence to show that farmers' perspectives on poverty processes and outcomes are critical in the early stages of evaluating impact of agricultural research on poverty. We summarize lessons learned from farmer impact assessment workshops held in five African locations, cover...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Elsevier
2002
|
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/943 |
| _version_ | 1855540462702559232 |
|---|---|
| author | Kristjanson, Patricia M. Place, Frank Franzel, Steven Thornton, Philip K. |
| author_browse | Franzel, Steven Kristjanson, Patricia M. Place, Frank Thornton, Philip K. |
| author_facet | Kristjanson, Patricia M. Place, Frank Franzel, Steven Thornton, Philip K. |
| author_sort | Kristjanson, Patricia M. |
| collection | Repository of Agricultural Research Outputs (CGSpace) |
| description | In this paper we provide evidence to show that farmers' perspectives on poverty processes and outcomes are critical in the early stages of evaluating impact of agricultural research on poverty. We summarize lessons learned from farmer impact assessment workshops held in five African locations, covering three agro-ecological zones and five different agroforestry and livestock technologies arising from collaborative national–international agricultural research. Poverty alleviation is a process that needs to be understood before impact can be measured. Workshops such as those we describe can help researchers to identify farmers' different ways of managing and using a technology and likely effects, unanticipated impacts, major impacts to pursue in more quantitative studies, the primary links between agricultural technology and poverty, and key conditioning factors affecting adoption and impact that can be used to stratify samples in more formal analyses. Farmer workshops inform other qualitative and quantitative impact assessment methods. We discuss the linkage of farmer-derived information with GIS-based approaches that allow more complete specification of recommendation domains and broader-scale measurement of impact. |
| format | Journal Article |
| id | CGSpace943 |
| institution | CGIAR Consortium |
| language | Inglés |
| publishDate | 2002 |
| publishDateRange | 2002 |
| publishDateSort | 2002 |
| publisher | Elsevier |
| publisherStr | Elsevier |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | CGSpace9432025-11-12T04:31:11Z Assessing research impact on poverty: the importance of farmers’ perspectives Kristjanson, Patricia M. Place, Frank Franzel, Steven Thornton, Philip K. In this paper we provide evidence to show that farmers' perspectives on poverty processes and outcomes are critical in the early stages of evaluating impact of agricultural research on poverty. We summarize lessons learned from farmer impact assessment workshops held in five African locations, covering three agro-ecological zones and five different agroforestry and livestock technologies arising from collaborative national–international agricultural research. Poverty alleviation is a process that needs to be understood before impact can be measured. Workshops such as those we describe can help researchers to identify farmers' different ways of managing and using a technology and likely effects, unanticipated impacts, major impacts to pursue in more quantitative studies, the primary links between agricultural technology and poverty, and key conditioning factors affecting adoption and impact that can be used to stratify samples in more formal analyses. Farmer workshops inform other qualitative and quantitative impact assessment methods. We discuss the linkage of farmer-derived information with GIS-based approaches that allow more complete specification of recommendation domains and broader-scale measurement of impact. 2002-04 2010-03-28T10:16:53Z 2010-03-28T10:16:53Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/943 en Open Access application/pdf Elsevier Kristjanson, P.; Place, F.; Franzel, S.; Thornton, P.K. 2002. Assessing research impact on poverty: the importance of farmers' perspectives. Agricultural Systems. 72(1):73-92. |
| spellingShingle | Kristjanson, Patricia M. Place, Frank Franzel, Steven Thornton, Philip K. Assessing research impact on poverty: the importance of farmers’ perspectives |
| title | Assessing research impact on poverty: the importance of farmers’ perspectives |
| title_full | Assessing research impact on poverty: the importance of farmers’ perspectives |
| title_fullStr | Assessing research impact on poverty: the importance of farmers’ perspectives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessing research impact on poverty: the importance of farmers’ perspectives |
| title_short | Assessing research impact on poverty: the importance of farmers’ perspectives |
| title_sort | assessing research impact on poverty the importance of farmers perspectives |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/943 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT kristjansonpatriciam assessingresearchimpactonpovertytheimportanceoffarmersperspectives AT placefrank assessingresearchimpactonpovertytheimportanceoffarmersperspectives AT franzelsteven assessingresearchimpactonpovertytheimportanceoffarmersperspectives AT thorntonphilipk assessingresearchimpactonpovertytheimportanceoffarmersperspectives |