A common ground
Farmers need new ideas, and researchers need data. When these two professional groups meet in the framework of collaborative or participatory research, it is often not clear who has to evolve in what direction: do farmers need to learn about research protocols, systematically collecting and analysing data, or do researchers need new ideas from farmers to guide their research agenda?
Title of publication: AgroInsight
Author: Paul Van Mele
Organization: AgroInsight, Access Agriculture
Other organizations: Collaborative Crop Research Programme (CCRP), McKnight Foundation
Year: 2020
Country/ies: Niger
Geographical coverage: Africa
Type: Blog article
Full text available at: https://www.agroinsight.com/blog/?p=3768
Content language: English