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Households’ aspirations for rural development through agriculture

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/10609/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030727018766940
10.1177/0030727018766940
 
Title Households’ aspirations for rural development through agriculture
 
Creator Mausch, K
Harris, D
Heather, E
Jones, E
Yim, J
Hauser, M
 
Subject Agriculture
Rural Development
Rural Economy
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Description In sub-Saharan Africa, rural households are the focus of many development efforts and the transformation of smallholder agriculture is one entry point for this process. Understanding farming households’ technology choices remains one of the most critical aspects of agricultural research in rural areas. However, many technologies that are known to be effective and potentially highly beneficial have remained widely unused. One reason is that predicting farmers’ decisions concerning agricultural technologies using conventional economic theories is flawed. In this article, we suggest that human aspirations have a much greater influence on technology choices than hitherto believed. We further argue that a better understanding of aspirations will improve the targeting of technology development by researchers. We propose distributed ethnography to empirically test the influence of human aspirations on technology choice. From such insight, we anticipate better research priority setting as well as more effective rural development strategies in general.
 
Publisher Sage
 
Date 2018-04
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10609/1/Households%E2%80%99%20aspirations.pdf
Mausch, K and Harris, D and Heather, E and Jones, E and Yim, J and Hauser, M (2018) Households’ aspirations for rural development through agriculture. Outlook on Agriculture (TSI). pp. 1-8. ISSN 0030-7270