Addressing the Paradox – the Divergence Between Smallholders' Preference and Actual Adoption of Agricultural Innovations

Experiences in smallholder contexts indicate frequent mismatches between technologies introduced and needs of farmers who must make complex decisions in reallocating their limited resources under highly risky ecological and market contexts. This study proposes a cost- and time-effective, easy-to-imp...

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Main Authors:	Iiyama, Miyuki, Mukuralinda, Athanase, Ndayambaje, Jean Damascene, Musana, Bernard, Ndoli, Alain, Mowo, Jeremias G., Garrity, Dennis, Ling, Stephen, Ruganzu, Vicky
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Taylor and Francis 2019
Subjects:	TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION FARMER PERCEPTIONS AGROFORESTRY SMALLHOLDER FARMER ECOLOGY CLIMATE RISK FORESTRY TREES ON FARMS
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31140

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spelling	okr-10986-311402021-05-25T10:54:36Z Addressing the Paradox – the Divergence Between Smallholders' Preference and Actual Adoption of Agricultural Innovations Iiyama, Miyuki Mukuralinda, Athanase Ndayambaje, Jean Damascene Musana, Bernard Ndoli, Alain Mowo, Jeremias G. Garrity, Dennis Ling, Stephen Ruganzu, Vicky TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION FARMER PERCEPTIONS AGROFORESTRY SMALLHOLDER FARMER ECOLOGY CLIMATE RISK FORESTRY TREES ON FARMS Experiences in smallholder contexts indicate frequent mismatches between technologies introduced and needs of farmers who must make complex decisions in reallocating their limited resources under highly risky ecological and market contexts. This study proposes a cost- and time-effective, easy-to-implement approach to identify farmers’ priorities and critical intervention areas, and presents its application in guiding an agroforestry strategy in Rwanda. It was found that different tree species have distinctive enabling vs. constraining conditions under different agroecological contexts in the perspective of smallholder farmers. Tree species preferred by farmers were not necessarily widely adopted if multitudes of conditions were not enabling. The essential conditions for sustainable adoption include: quality materials/inputs are available; technologies are compatible with existing local farming systems; they are resilient to climate risks/resistant to pests-diseases; management is not complicated; and, there is guaranteed access to markets. The results show that there will not be a silver bullet national strategy to scale up agroforestry. Instead a matrix kind of strategies -to promote enabling conditions and address constraining conditions for priority species in specific agroecologies- will be required. The proposed concept should be further refined for wider agricultural technology transfer debates to break the myths of low uptakes by smallholders. 2019-01-10T21:36:07Z 2019-01-10T21:36:07Z 2018-10-29 Journal Article International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 1473-5903 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31140 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Taylor and Francis Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Rwanda
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topic	TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION FARMER PERCEPTIONS AGROFORESTRY SMALLHOLDER FARMER ECOLOGY CLIMATE RISK FORESTRY TREES ON FARMS
spellingShingle	TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION FARMER PERCEPTIONS AGROFORESTRY SMALLHOLDER FARMER ECOLOGY CLIMATE RISK FORESTRY TREES ON FARMS Iiyama, Miyuki Mukuralinda, Athanase Ndayambaje, Jean Damascene Musana, Bernard Ndoli, Alain Mowo, Jeremias G. Garrity, Dennis Ling, Stephen Ruganzu, Vicky Addressing the Paradox – the Divergence Between Smallholders' Preference and Actual Adoption of Agricultural Innovations
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description	Experiences in smallholder contexts indicate frequent mismatches between technologies introduced and needs of farmers who must make complex decisions in reallocating their limited resources under highly risky ecological and market contexts. This study proposes a cost- and time-effective, easy-to-implement approach to identify farmers’ priorities and critical intervention areas, and presents its application in guiding an agroforestry strategy in Rwanda. It was found that different tree species have distinctive enabling vs. constraining conditions under different agroecological contexts in the perspective of smallholder farmers. Tree species preferred by farmers were not necessarily widely adopted if multitudes of conditions were not enabling. The essential conditions for sustainable adoption include: quality materials/inputs are available; technologies are compatible with existing local farming systems; they are resilient to climate risks/resistant to pests-diseases; management is not complicated; and, there is guaranteed access to markets. The results show that there will not be a silver bullet national strategy to scale up agroforestry. Instead a matrix kind of strategies -to promote enabling conditions and address constraining conditions for priority species in specific agroecologies- will be required. The proposed concept should be further refined for wider agricultural technology transfer debates to break the myths of low uptakes by smallholders.
format	Journal Article
author	Iiyama, Miyuki Mukuralinda, Athanase Ndayambaje, Jean Damascene Musana, Bernard Ndoli, Alain Mowo, Jeremias G. Garrity, Dennis Ling, Stephen Ruganzu, Vicky
author_facet	Iiyama, Miyuki Mukuralinda, Athanase Ndayambaje, Jean Damascene Musana, Bernard Ndoli, Alain Mowo, Jeremias G. Garrity, Dennis Ling, Stephen Ruganzu, Vicky
author_sort	Iiyama, Miyuki
title	Addressing the Paradox – the Divergence Between Smallholders' Preference and Actual Adoption of Agricultural Innovations
title_short	Addressing the Paradox – the Divergence Between Smallholders' Preference and Actual Adoption of Agricultural Innovations
title_full	Addressing the Paradox – the Divergence Between Smallholders' Preference and Actual Adoption of Agricultural Innovations
title_fullStr	Addressing the Paradox – the Divergence Between Smallholders' Preference and Actual Adoption of Agricultural Innovations
title_full_unstemmed	Addressing the Paradox – the Divergence Between Smallholders' Preference and Actual Adoption of Agricultural Innovations
title_sort	addressing the paradox – the divergence between smallholders' preference and actual adoption of agricultural innovations
publisher	Taylor and Francis
publishDate	2019
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31140
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Addressing the Paradox – the Divergence Between Smallholders' Preference and Actual Adoption of Agricultural Innovations

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