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Crop, Conservation, Creativity and Collaboration
(2009-07-25)
Participatory plant breeding has attracted lot of attention in the recent past. However, most of the time, farmers’ involvement has been restricted to selections from the material generated by plant breeders as a part of ...
Indigenous Knowledge and Innovations for Managing Resources, Institutions and Technologies Sustainably: A Case of Agriculture, Medicinal Plants and Biotechnology
(2009-07-25)
Communities living close to nature invariably evolve a language to understand and interpret the variations and discontinuities in nature. A flower of new colour, an unusually tall plant, an unseasonal germination or an ...
How grassroots innovation took shape
(DNA, Ahmedabad, 2016-07-24)
Managing Knowledge, Creating Networks and Triggering Innovations for Sustainable Agriculture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
In this paper, the author discuss the major knowledge gaps, stress the importance of peer learning and building upon farmers’ own innovations and suggest new initiatives for transforming extension strategies. He have ...
Grassroots innovations for survival
(2000-10-15)
Although participation is much discussed, poor people rarely get the opportunity to develop their
own agenda and vision or set terms for the involvement of outsiders. The entire participatory
paradigm illustrates that ...