TY  - JA
AU  - Glover,D.
AU  - Sumberg,J.
AU  - Ton,G.
AU  - Andersson,J.A.
AU  - Badstue,L.B.
TI  - Rethinking technological change in smallholder agriculture
SN  - 0030-7270
PY  - 2019///
CY  - United Kingdom : 
PB  - SAGE Pucations
KW  - Innovation adoption
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Agricultural research for development
KW  - Agricultural extension
KW  - Evaluation
N1  - Peer review; Open Access; MCRP; FP5; WC; FP1
N2  - The concept of technology adoption (along with its companions, diffusion and scaling) is commonly used to design development interventions, to frame impact evaluations and to inform decision-making about new investments in development-oriented agricultural research. However, adoption simplifies and mischaracterises what happens during processes of technological change. In all but the very simplest cases, it is likely to be inadequate to capture the complex reconfiguration of social and technical components of a technological practice or system. We review the insights of a large and expanding literature, from various disciplines, which has deepened understanding of technological change as an intricate and complex sociotechnical reconfiguration, situated in time and space. We explain the problems arising from the inappropriate use of adoption as a framing concept and propose an alternative conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating technological change. The new approach breaks down technology change programmes into four aspects: propositions, encounters, dispositions and responses. We begin to sketch out how this new framework could be operationalised
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/10883/20520
T2  - Outlook on Agriculture
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0030727019864978
ER  -