Concept and Implementation of Participation and Empowerment: Reflection From the Coffee Ipm-Secp

Iqbal, Muhammad

doi:10.7454/mssh.v11i2.112

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“…A study by Douglah and Sicilima (1997) indicated that the lack of participation of the target groups in all stages of the project planning leads to its failure. In addition, for an agricultural project to be successful, the farmers' socio-economic characteristics should be taken into consideration (Iqbal 2007). On the extension services, the KIs mentioned the inadequate number of extension agents and inadequate facilities compared with the number of farmers in need.…”

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“…Numerous studies indicated the factors hindering the farmers' participation in agricultural program. These factors include the farmers' socio-economic characteristics (Iqbal 2007), their real needs, the lack of time, uncomfortable feeling of their participation in agricultural education process, and the lack of trust towards agricultural extension agents (Lioutas et al 2010). In addition, the factors negatively affecting female farmers' willingness to participate in agricultural extension program include the lack of trust towards the bodies offering the programs, the perception that all members of the rural society can't easily access the programs and underestimating the capacity of agricultural education programs to deliver the new knowledge (Charatsari et al 2013a).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Factors influencing farmers' participation in crop intensification program in Rwanda

Nahayo

Omondi

Zhang

et al. 2017

Journal of Integrative Agriculture

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The crop intensification program (CIP) was introduced in Rwanda in 2007 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) as a solution to the land fragmentation, low use of agricultural inputs and low access to extension services. However, due to the voluntary nature of farmers' participation and their reluctance to participate, this study aimed at assessing the factors that influence their participation. Data were collected from 340 respondents through a household survey in Mayange and Rusarabuye sectors. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression model were used to analyze the data. Results show that the factors that significantly influenced the farmers' participation in the CIP include gender, non-farm income, farmland size, farming experience, land acquisition means, market access, trust and agro-ecological conditions. In fact, the non-farm income significantly increased the farmers' decisions to participate in the CIP (P<0.001) as it eases the financial capital needed to invest in the CIP activities. On the land acquisition means, the farmers who inherited or bought the land positively and significantly participated in the CIP (P<0.05) because they had the land tenure security. However, the participation in the CIP was hindered by inadequate irrigation and mechanization facilities, lack of farmers' participation in the CIP planning process, inadequate extension services, inadequate agricultural inputs and inadequate postharvest technologies. Closer collaboration between farmers, local leaders, extension agents and agricultural service providers as well as the farmers' practical skills in irrigation and mechanization could enhance the participation to the program. Therefore, there is a need on the part of policymakers to empower farmers with adequate knowledge on better cropping practices and agricultural technologies through appropriate extension services and bottom-up based program.

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Factors influencing farmers' participation in crop intensification program in Rwanda

Nahayo

Omondi

Zhang

et al. 2017

Journal of Integrative Agriculture

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“…Problem of weakness in integrating these important types of knowledge created gap between farmers and researchers and hindered farmer's participation in agricultural research to bring innovation in agriculture. Empirical studies [1,4,5,7] show that most agricultural technologies fail due to lack of indigenous knowledge integration with scientific knowledge in agricultural research process. Moreover, the research does not consider the role of local knowledge in alleviating food security.…”

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“…Most agricultural research projects fail for lack of seeking input from the stakeholders in planning phase of the project [4]. Failure and poor adoption of agricultural research projects are results of lack of active farmers' participation in all phases of the research projects.…”

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Factors Hindering Farmers’ Participation and Look for Agricultural Development and Food Security

Bayissa

2019

JEAI

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Agriculture is one of the key drivers of Ethiopia’s long-term development and food security. It supports 85% of the total population, constitutes 43% of GDP and 80% of export value. For the country to reach middle-income prestige by 2025 and make significant inroads against food insecurity, strategic choices and concerted and strategic investments in agricultural sector are vigorous. The government of Ethiopia has put maximum efforts to increase agricultural output. However, increments in agricultural production and productivity, the expected benefits, have not been achieved yet. Low agricultural production and productivity is the major cause of food insecurity in the country emanating from lack of suitable technologies for beneficiaries, low adoption of agricultural innovations, and lack of active participation of farmers in agricultural research. Therefore, this study examines critical factors that hinder farmers’ participation in agricultural research in Ethiopia. A total sample size of 39 respondents comprising 16 farmers, 14 researchers and 9 development agents were interviewed purposively based on snowball sampling technique. Qualitative research design was used in this research. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews, focus group discussions and observations and analysed descriptively. The empirical results reveal that lack of sufficient time, bad experiences in the past, perception of farmers’ for researchers, farmer’s attitude for research, the type of research, lack of stakeholder’s willingness to learn from one another, loose integration of indigenous and scientific knowledge and insignificant change of new technologies to material wealth critically hindered farmer’s participation in agricultural research to bring innovation in agriculture. Innovation in agriculture comes from the interaction of the different actors that are working in agriculture since each actor brings their own knowledge and results in social learning. Insignificant innovation in agricultural research results in food insecurity in the country.

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“…Pretto and Pavesi (2012) also argued regarding empowerment as it is a social action process through which individuals, organizations and communities gain control over their lives and also try to improve their equity and quality of life by changing their political and social environment. Similarly, Iqbal (2007) described empowerment as a process through which a person or a community gives and gets power. In line with this, Maton (2008) has defined that empowerment is a process through which less privileged and powerless people/ individual or groups can achieve or get higher control of their lives and they can acquire value of their lives and resources to achieve their goals in life.…”

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confidence: 99%

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2016

AJARD

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1Community empowerment is an important goal for many governments in developing countries. Various activities for the empowerment of communities have been conducted in developing countries like Pakistan. The present research attempted to assess an activity of community empowerment on the Crop Maximization Project (CMP-II) in Sindh province, Pakistan. A total of 455 small farmers were surveyed using questionnaire in three districts namely; Khairpur, Nawabshah and Mirpurkhas. The level of empowerment was assessed based on three domains namely; capacity building, self-esteem and self-efficacy. The findings of the study showed that, there was a moderate level of empowerment among the beneficiaries (small farmers) of the crop maximization projects of the Sindh province based on a summed mean score of 178.77 for the three dimensions of empowerment. Therefore, it is concluded that projects like crop maximization are able to empower the beneficiaries as the intangible outcomes.

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Concept and Implementation of Participation and Empowerment: Reflection From the Coffee Ipm-Secp

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Factors influencing farmers' participation in crop intensification program in Rwanda

Factors influencing farmers' participation in crop intensification program in Rwanda

Factors Hindering Farmers’ Participation and Look for Agricultural Development and Food Security

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