Farmer First
Workshop Papers
FARMER FIRST REVISITED:
FARMER PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TWENTY YEARS ON
Conference Papers
From this page, you can access the individual papers submitted for discussion at the conference. The papers are organised by the theme and session and listed by author name and paper title. For full details of sessions please see the Conference Programme.
These papers are in draft form and should not be cited, reproduced or circulated without the permission of the author
Please note: Lead paper authors who are not participating in person in this conference are designated with an asterisk (*). In several such cases, co-authors will be present.
Theme 1: Agricultural innovation systems – putting farmers first?
Theme 2: Organising agricultural research and development for the 21st century
Theme 3: Methodological innovation, personal and organisational change: looking to the future
Farmer First Retrospect and Prospect
Ian Scoones, John Thompson and Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers ( IDS ): Farmer First: past, present, future?
Andy Hall, UNU-Merit/LINK – Building innovation systems: future challenges for agricultural development
Jacqueline Ashby , International Potato Center (CIP) – Fostering farmer first methodological innovation, organisational learning and change in international agricultural research
Evening talk
Adewale Adekunle – Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) – Agricultural research and development in Africa: new challenges for Farmer First approaches.
Theme 1: Agricultural innovation systems – putting farmers first?
a) Farmer participatory research and adaptive management
Discussant's presentation (Adrienne Martin - Natural Resources Institute, Greenwich, UK)
Edward Chuma – UZ, Zimbabwe – Participatory, interactive innovation and development experiences in Zimbabwe and South Africa [provisional title]
Cecilia Turin – National Agricultural University, La Molina , Peru – Advocacy Coalitions to Build Participatory Processes in the Peruvian Altiplano: Increasing Human Capacities to Adapt to Changes
Ravi Prabhu et al. – CIFOR – Action Research with Local Forest Users and Managers: Lessons from CIFOR's Research on Adaptive Collaborative Management
Jean Claude Rubyogo and Louise Sperling – CIAT – Developing seed systems with and for the poor and marginalised: case of beans ( phaseolus vulgaris L ) in east, central and southern Africa
Rob Tripp – ODI – Crop management innovation and the economics of attention
Yan Zhaoli – ICIMOD – Co-management of Rangeland Resources in Hindu Kush–Himalayan Region: Involving Farmers in the Policy Process
Todd Crane – Wageningen – If we put farmers first, where do the pastoralists go? Political ecology and participation in central Mali
Norman Uphoff – CIIFAD – Farmer Innovations in the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)
b) Engaging with markets
Discussant's presentation (John Dixon - CIMMYT)
Clive Lightfoot and Ueli Scheuermeier – Lightfoot Consulting – Testing an Operational Strategy for Learning How to Improve Small Holder Farmers' Links to Markets
Julieta Roa – UPWARD – Developing Alternative Innovation Pathways based on the Market Chain Approach: the Case of Rootcrop Chips In Leyte, Philippines
Dindo Campilan* et al. – UPWARD – Beyond the Farmer and the Farm: UPWARD, User's Perspectives and Agricultural Livelihoods
Jemimah Njuki et al. – CIAT – Empowering communities through market-led development: community agro-enterprise experiences from Uganda and Malawi
Susan Kaaria et al. – CIAT – Enabling rural innovation in Africa : an approach for empowering smallholder farmers to access market opportunities for improved livelihoods
Vincon Nyimbo – Agricultural Marketing Systems Development Programme, Tanzania – The First Mile: Making better market access sustainable for small farmers
Rapporteur's notes of the group discussion
c) Science and the politics of knowledge
Discussant's presentation (Melissa Leach - IDS and the STEPS Centre, Sussex, UK)
Shambu Prasad – Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) – Encounters, Dialogues and Learning Alliances among Farmers, Scientists and Others in the System of Rice Intensification in India
Anil Gupta – IIM-Ahmedabad – From Sink to Source: The Honey Bee Innovator Network Documents Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations in India
Monty P. Jones and Sidi Sanyang* – FARA – Promoting inclusion of civil society organizations (CSOs) in African Agricultural Research and Development
Kerry Albright – NR International – Research into Use: Linking scientists and users in innovation systems
Oscar Ortiz et al. – CIP – Participatory research on potato-related innovation systems in Bolivia , Ethiopia , Peru and Uganda
Virginia Nazarea – University of Georgia – A Map of Her Own: Accessing the Imagined, Imagining the Unaccessed
Norman Uphoff – CIIFAD – The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) as a System of Agricultural Innovation
d) Assessing outcomes: participatory learning and impact assessment
Discussant's presentation (Maria Fernandez - University of Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
Dawit Abebe – Tufts, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Participatory impact assessment of pastoral development in Ethiopia .
Boru Douthwaite and Martin Gummert – CIAT and IRRI – Learning Selection Revisited
Boru Douthwaite – CIAT – Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis
Irene Guijt – Learning by Design – Rethinking monitoring for collective learning in rural resource management
Adrienne Martin – Natural Resources Institute – So what difference does it make? Assessing the impacts and outcomes of farmer participatory research
Pascal Sanginga* – CIAT/IDRC – Tracking outcomes of participatory policy learning and action research: Methodological issues and empirical evidence from participatory bylaw reforms in Uganda
Theme 2: Organising agricultural research and development for the 21st century
a) Private-public linkages
Discussant's presentation (Ian Scoones - IDS and the STEPS Centre)
Dominic Glover – IDS – Farmer participation in private sector agricultural extension services and innovation systems: the case of Monsanto in India
Bino Témé* et al. – Institut d'Economie Rurale , Mali – De la création d'une station de recherche au renforcement des capacités des producteurs: L'experience de la Fondation Syngenta au Mali [in French]
Gospel Omanya – AATF, Nairobi – A Bridge for Delivering Innovations to Smallholder Farmers in Africa
Andy Peters – GALVmed – Protecting Livestock - Saving Human Life
David Spielman* et al. – IFPRI – Public–private partnerships and developing-country agriculture: evidence from the international agricultural research system
Rapporteur's summary of the group discussion
b) What is the future of extension?
Discussant's presentation (Rob Tripp - ODI, London)
Amanuel Assefa – AgriService Ethiopia – Farmer-led innovation: Experiences and challenges in Ethiopia
Qi Gubo et al. – College of Humanities and Development, China Agricultural University – Institutionalizing Farmer-Centered Research Approach (FCRA) in China
Paul Van Mele – WARDA – The Role of International Agricultural Research Centres in strengthening rural extension
Hlamalani Ngwenya and Jürgen Hagmann – PICO South Africa and TAD Group, Wageningen University – Facilitation for change: Triggering emancipation and innovation in rural communities in South Africa
Richard Ewbank* et al. – FARM-Africa – Farmer Participatory Research in Northern Tanzania
Niels Röling and Janice Jiggins* – Wageningen Agricultural University – Making trans-disciplinary science work for resource-poor farmers
Ahmad Salahuddin et al. – IRRI, Bangladesh – Values in agricultural research and development management: rhetoric and practice
Yunita Winarto – University of Indonesia – ‘Bull' vs. ‘Tiger': Can the bull and the tiger work collaboratively? A reflection on farmer first in Indonesia
c) Creating demand and increasing accountability: the role of farmers' organisations
Discussant's presentation (Ann Waters-Bayer - PROLINNOVA)
Khamarunga Banda* - National African Farmers Union of South Africa (NAFU SA)– Experiences of the African Alliance of sub-regional Farmer Organisations.
Beatriz del Rosario – International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) Philippines – Fostering farmer–scientist research collaboration on improving crop productivity and profitability – the IFAP perspective
Assetou Kanouté – ADAF/ Gallé , Mali – Promoting Farmer Experimentation and Innovation to Improve Food Security and Natural Resource Conservation in the Sahel (Profeis): Case Of Mali
Nduati Kariuki* – Kenya National Federation of Agricultural Producers (KENFAP) – Farmer First Revisited: Farmer-centred research
Michael Kibue – Kikasha Livestock (Beef) Association, Kenya – Learning to Set Up a Fair Trade Livestock Marketing Chain from Massai Pastoralists to Consumers in Nairobi, Kenya
Elizabeth Vargas and William Burgoa* – CIPCA – Farmers' participation in policy advocacy processes: Reviewing two cases from Bolivia
Rapporteur's summary of the group discussion
Theme 3: Methodological innovation, personal and organisational change: looking to the future
a) Institutionalising participation in large, public R&D organisations
Discussant's presentation (C Shambu Prasad - Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, India)
John Dixon – CIMMYT – Institutionalising approaches to farmer participation in FAO and CIMMYT [provisional title]
Ruth Meinzen-Dick* – IFPRI/CAPRi – Institutionalising the Study of Institutions in Agricultural Research: Reflections on the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights ( CAPRi )
Dannie Romney – CABI – New approaches to research – experiences from research organisations
Rasheed Sulaiman – CRISP – Farmer first or still last? Uneven institutional development in the Indian agricultural innovation system
John Witcombe et al. – CAZS-NR, University of Wales , Bangor – Client-oriented breeding and seed supply
Jamie Watts and Douglas Horton* – ILAC – Institutional Learning and Change: An initiative to promote greater impact through agricultural research for poverty alleviation
Li Xiaoyun et al. – Chinese Agricultural University – Pro-smallholders' Agricultural Science And Technology Policies in China
Rapporteur's summary of the discussion
b) Building networks and partnerships for change: power and relationships
Discussant's presentation (Susan Kaaria - CIAT)
Maria Arce – Practical Action – Food sovereignty: a farmer-led policy framework
Awa Faly Ba – IED Afrique – Communicating farmers' knowledge: AGRIDAPE and PROFEIS experiences
Scott Killough – World Neighbours – Time for a new dream?: Reflections on partnerships for ‘action research’ to realize participatory agricultural research and extension
Oliver Oliveros* – DURAS Project – Challenges of strengthening the involvement of stakeholders in innovation and research: the DURAS experience
Lydia Sasu – Development Action Association (DAA), Ghana – ARD: Evidence In Contributing to the Achievement of the MDGs – Eradicating extreme hunger and poverty; promoting gender equality and empowering women – Poster Exhibition – local fish storage
Edith van Walsum – ILEIA – Learning to value LEISA: Experiences in global knowledge networking for Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture
Ann Waters-Bayer et al. – Prolinnova – PROLINNOVA: Building Partnerships to Promote Local Innovation Processes
Bernard Triomphe – CIRAD – How may research take part in innovation processes involving multi-stakeholder partnerships? Lessons, challenges and opportunities
Anil Gupta – Honey Bee Network – Through the Doors Within: Network, Institutions and Movement
Paul Richards – TAD, Wageningen University – Farmer s First? Towards a neural network perspective on farmer seed systems
c) New professionals: changing agricultural education systems
Discussant's presentation (Niels Roling - Wagenginen University, the Netherlands)
Andy Catley* – Tufts, Addis Ababa , Ethiopia – From marginal to normative: institutionalizing participatory epidemiology
Jürgen Hagmann et al. – PICOTEAM – Learning to make Change: Developing Innovation & Change Competence in African Universities
Jethro Pettit and Peter Taylor* – IDS – Which farmers first? Power and resilience in learning for agriculture and development
Robert Rhoades – University of Georgia – Participation, Paternalism and Practicality: Reconciling Sustainability Science and Indigenous Agendas
Li Xiaoyun et al. – Chinese Agricultural University – China's higher education policy reform in practice: rejuvenating rural development studies.
Resources
Download the full Farmer First Revisited Workshop Programme here
Post-workshop summary
Ian Scoones, John Thompson and Robert Chambers
Farmer First Retrospect and Prospect
Workshop Overview paper
Ian Scoones, John Thompson and Robert Chambers
Additional Papers
Agricultural Innovation for Rural Development: a master's program for professionals working in rural areas
M. E. Fernandez and O. Ortiz
From Farmers First to Labourers First: Why do we still know so little?
Anil K Gupta
