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_bWAT
100 1 _aJohnson, N.
_uInternational conference on impacts of agricultural research and development: Why has impact assessment research not made more of a difference?
110 0 _aCentro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Mexico DF (Mexico)
111 2 _aInternational Conference on Impacts of Agricultural Research and Development
_cSan José (Costa Rica)
_d4-7 Feb 2002
245 0 0 _aMeasuring the impact of user participation in natural resource management research
260 _aMexico, DF (Mexico)
_bCIMMYT :
_c2003
300 _ap. 42
340 _aPrinted
500 _aAbstract only
520 _aPersistent poverty and environmental degradation demand a constant effort to improve the effectiveness and impact of agricultural and natural resource management research. Participatory research methods have been developed to enable researchers to better target their work towards the needs and constraints of specific stakeholder groups. Beyond improving the efficiency of the research process, participatory research may also strengthen the capacity of participants to initiate a continuous process of innovation suited to their particular needs and conditions. The capacity of users to locally evaluate and adapt technologies may be particularly important in natural research management. This paper assesses the impact of using participatory methods in three natural resource management research projects. The analysis assesses the technological, economic, human, social, and cost implications of incorporating users into the research process. Data for the analysis was gather using both participatory and conventional survey methods. The results suggest that user input early in the project can be critical for identifying relevant technologies. User input was also linked to higher levels of adoptability and/ or economic impact. While human capital impacts were found to be very high when farmers worked intensely with researchers, no significant social capita1 impacts were found. This could possibly be related to the plot-level nature of the technologies being developed. Finally, participatory methods do appear to imply increased short-run costs. However, these costs are not as high as might be expected and are often one-time costs associated with building capacity to do participatory research.
546 _aEnglish
591 _a0310|R01CIMPU|AGRIS 0301|AL-Economics Program
593 _aJuan Carlos Mendieta
595 _aCPC
650 1 0 _aEnvironmental degradation
650 1 0 _aNatural resources
650 1 7 _aPoverty
_gAGROVOC
_2
_91215
650 1 0 _aProject management
650 1 0 _aResearch projects
_91237
650 1 0 _aTechnology
_gAGROVOC
_91988
653 0 _aCIMMYT
650 1 7 _aAgricultural research
_gAGROVOC
_2
_91006
700 1 _aAshby, J.,
_ecoaut.
700 1 _aLilja, N.,
_ecoaut.
700 1 _9960
_aWatson, D.J.
_gResearch & Partnership Program
_8INT3479
_eed.
942 _cPRO
999 _c6850
_d6850