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Farmer Participatory Research: Editorial Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

John Farrington
John Farrington
Affiliation:
Overseas Development Institute, Regent's College, Inner Circle, Regent's Park, London NW1 4NS, England
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Summary

This paper places the participatory approaches to research presented in the six following papers into the broader debate on priorities in agricultural research and on the role of specific approaches to research. It reviews the principal features of the approaches outlined, the extent to which they have been incorporated into existing institutions such as national agricultural research services, and their implications for support services. Key issues which future participatory research should address are highlighted.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , July 1988 , pp. 269 - 279
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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