There needs to be a paradigm shift from a linear to cyclical approach to learning. This can happen when students move towards system thinking and build key competencies by...
Farmer Field School: Farmer centric agriculture extension approaches
Rakhi Saxena & Ajay Saxena Forming partnerships and groups to work together for agricultural development is very important. Participatory extension approaches such as...
Participatory Technology and Development
The research in agriculture has been confined laboratories of the Research Institutes and Universities. The scientists most of the times, are not exposed to the ground problems...
Farmer Functionary Research-An Innovative Methodology for Transfer of Technology
In Kerala, factors like narrow land-man ratio, depleted forests and farm environment due to the combined effect of environmental degeneration, over reliance on fertilizers and...
Participatory Action Learning in practice: Experience of Anandi, India
Since the 1980s there has been a rapid expansion in use of participatory diagram methods for collecting information as part of both planning and research processes. It is now...
WOMEN CAN MOVE THE EARTH Experiences in working with women farmers
Edith van Walsum Women get more control over less resources The Deccan Plateau is a drought prone region in South India covering substantial parts of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka,...