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Developing a Partnership between Farmers and Scientists: the Example of Zambia's Adaptive Research Planning Team

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

Stuart A. Kean
Stuart A. Kean
Affiliation:
School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, England
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Summary

The Adaptive Research Planning Team in Luapula Province (ARPT-LP) is one of nine provincial teams in Zambia conducting farming systems research within the Research Branch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Water Development. ARPT-LP has been relatively successful in developing a partnership with farmers, involving them in both the planning and implementation of the team's research programme. This paper examines the formal and informal occasions on which farmers have been involved in the team's activities, with examples to illustrate how farmers' opinions have influenced decisions made by ARPT-LP. The factors which have influenced the frequency and quality of the scientists' interaction with farmers are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , July 1988 , pp. 289 - 299
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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