Contribution of innovation intermediaries in agricultural innovation: the case of agricultural R&amp;D in Tanzania

Mgumia, Athman H.; Mattee, A. Z.; Kundi, Beatus A. T.

doi:10.1080/20421338.2015.1023644

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“…In general, the climatic changes reported by farmers in this study agree with previous studies on climate change perceptions in Tanzania's mountains [27,45,48,[59][60][61][62][63], but we investigated more variables than previous studies (Table 3 and references therein). For instance, increased temperatures, reduced duration and amount of rainfall, and more dry spells during the long rains were reported by previous studies on Kilimanjaro, Pare, Uluguru, Usambara, and Udzungwa mountains and the Southern Highlands.…”

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Local Perceptions of Climate Change and Adaptation Responses from Two Mountain Regions in Tanzania

Kaganzi¹,

Cuní-Sanchez

Mcharazo

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Mountain environments and communities are disproportionately impacted by climate change. Changes in temperature are greater than at lower elevations, which affect the height of the cloud base and local rainfall patterns. While our knowledge of the biophysical nature of climate change in East Africa has increased in the past few years, research on Indigenous farmers’ perceptions and adaptation responses is still lacking, particularly in mountains regions. Semi-structured interviews were administered to 300 farmers on Mount Kilimanjaro (n = 150) and the Udzungwa Mountains (n = 150) in Tanzania across gender and wealth groups. Respondents in both mountains reported not only changes in rainfall and temperature, corresponding with meteorological data, but also a greater incidence of fog, wind, frost, and hailstorms—with impacts on decreased crop yields and increased outbreaks of pests. The most common adaptation strategies used were improved crop varieties and inputs. Wealthier households diversified into horticulture or animal rearing, while poorer households of Hehe ethnicity diversified to labour and selling firewood. Despite being climate change literate and having access to radios, most respondents used Indigenous knowledge to decide on planting dates. Our findings highlight how context and culture are important when designing adaptation options and argue for greater involvement of local stakeholders in adaptation planning using a science-with-society approach. Place-based results offer generalisable insights that have application for other mountains in the Global South.

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“…(H: Highlands). 1 [63]; 2 [48]; 3 [27]; 4 [59]; 5 [45]; 6 [60]; 7 [61]; 8 [62]; 9 [42]; 10 [60]; 11 [60]; 12 [4]; 13 [76]; 14 [77]; 15 [65]; 16 [32]; 17 [66].…”

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Local Perceptions of Climate Change and Adaptation Responses from Two Mountain Regions in Tanzania

Kaganzi¹,

Cuní-Sanchez

Mcharazo

et al. 2021

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“…Agricultural innovation emerges from local practices (Hooli & Jauhiainen, 2018). In the other way, authors like Korzun et al (2014) and Mgumia et al (2015) explicated that agricultural innovation emerges over time within a social group incorporating both learning from experiences of earlier generations and accumulated knowledge from social connectedness. According to these authors, agricultural innovation is a result of social experimentation and members own trial and error methods within the interconnected web of social connections, informal organizations and social structure at the community level.…”

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Innovating social connectedness for agricultural innovations in eastern Ethiopia

Wedajo

Jilito

2020

Cogent Food & Agriculture

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Agricultural innovations can be triggered by the social networks in which farmers have purposefully organized to support themselves. This paper, therefore, explores the values of social connectedness within locally established societies' mutual support associations for agricultural innovations. This study explains how mutual support social network associations trigger agricultural innovations and the way farmers utilize such networks to spiral agricultural innovations. Indigenous mutual support associations like Guuza, Iqubi and Afoosha function in trust-based self-enforcing orders, social networks and relationships in a more flexible and reciprocity-based order. These informal social networks are employed by farmers to collaborate on society's mutual support practices. Trust, norms and group membership are the key components of social capital within indigenous mutual support associations. The social connectedness within the sort of labor-sharing arrangement, informal financial group, funeral association and inter-village link aids member's collective capacity to figure the development of agricultural innovations. Inherently embedded social networks, mutual support, information sharing, interaction and trust among the members within mutual support associations are the ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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“…In the opinion of Hooli and Jauhiainen (2018), innovation emerges from local practices and is an evolutionary process. As also explicated by Korzun, Adekunle, and Filson (2014) and Mgumia, Mattee, and Kundi (2015), it is neither research nor science and technology. Instead, it has been developed over time within a social group incorporating both learning from experiences of earlier generations and accumulated knowledge from whatever sources.…”

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Risk induced farmers’ participation in agricultural innovations: evidence from a field experiment in eastern Ethiopia

Lemessa

Yismaw

Watabaji

2019

Development Studies Research

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It is widely accepted that agricultural innovations are vital to ensure food security and economic development. While farmers are among the key sources of agricultural innovations, many studies conducted in the past conceived them as adopters of externally generated technologies. They regarded farmers only as adopters of induced technologies. This study is designed to analyze farmers' participation in agricultural innovation activities using survey and experimental data. Both descriptive and econometric techniques were employed to analyze the data. It appears that risk attitudes and time preferences are variables that enhance farmers' participation in agricultural innovation activities. Wealth and socioeconomic variables such as access to information and irrigation facilities, input usage and age of household head are significantly correlated with farmers' participation in agricultural innovation activities. The findings comply with the induced innovation hypothesis, which recognizes the importance of threats and opportunities to triggering farmers' participation in agricultural innovation activities.

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Contribution of innovation intermediaries in agricultural innovation: the case of agricultural R&D in Tanzania

Cited by 10 publications

References 21 publications

Local Perceptions of Climate Change and Adaptation Responses from Two Mountain Regions in Tanzania

Local Perceptions of Climate Change and Adaptation Responses from Two Mountain Regions in Tanzania

Innovating social connectedness for agricultural innovations in eastern Ethiopia

Risk induced farmers’ participation in agricultural innovations: evidence from a field experiment in eastern Ethiopia

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