Participatory Technology Development for Agricultural Improvement: Challenges for Institutional Inte

Description from International Institute of Rural Reconstruction Website
"Since the 1980s, participatory approaches to agricultural extension and research have been promoted across all continents and groups of development actors. An increasing number of organizations are now implementing participatory technology development (PTD) in various settings. In the course of implementation, PTD projects have faced challenges of integrating the practices into the various institutions.

This publication, and the accompanying interactive CD, is a result of a study conducted by ETC Ecoculture of the Netherlands and the International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) in 2001 on institutionalizing PTD. The study generated 19 cases from around the world. The case studies were critically reviewed at a workshop held in the Philippines. The publication, therefore, is based on both the cases and rigorous workshop review. While the publication is largely an analytical report of the study and the workshop, the interactive CD contains both the publication and the detailed cases presented in very reader friendly and easily navigable formats."