Working Paper

Demonstration of an interdisciplinary approach to planning adaptive agricultural research programmes in the Serenje District, Central Province, Zambia 1978

author(s) Prior, A - Vernon, D - Parker, J.M.H - Bbenkele, E - Kean, S.A - Collinson, M.P
from International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
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  • Eastern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • World
citation

Prior, A et al., 'Demonstration of an interdisciplinary approach to planning adaptive agricultural research programmes in the Serenje District, Central Province, Zambia 1978', CIMMYT, 1981

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Abstract

In cooperation with researchers in many national agricultural research programs, CIMMYT has sought to develop procedures with help to focus agricultural research squarely on the needs of farmers. The process invo1ves collaboration of biological scientists and economists to identify the groups of farmers for whom technologies are to be developed, determining their circumstances and problems, screening this information for research opportunities, and then implementing the resulting research program on experiment stations and on the fields of representative farmers. CIMMYT's Economics Program has emphasized developing procedures for the first stage of this process, through to establishing research opportunities. The evolution of the procedures, now synthesized in a manual

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