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Participatory farm management methods for analysis, decision making & communication (pdf 1.82mb)

This document describes each of the Participatory Farm Management methods used in many developing countries for a range of purposes in agricultural research, extension and development.  These methods include Participatory Budgets; Scored Causal Diagrams; Resource Allocation Maps; and Resource Flow Diagrams.

It provides examples of how these methods have been used which include:
- Participatory extension and development
- Needs assessment
- Assessing the suitability of potential interventions
- Conducting on-farm participatory research adoption studies
- Studying farmers' practices and systems

Recently there has been increasing interest in the application of participatory methods for larger scale studies and statistically based data analysis. The last section of the document considers this and presents some examples of scaling-up and analysis.

 

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