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Fostering collective action at landscape level: Success factors of smallholder innovation platforms in the Eastern Highlands of Kenya and Uganda

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Title Fostering collective action at landscape level: Success factors of smallholder innovation platforms in the Eastern Highlands of Kenya and Uganda
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/27888
 
Creator Otiende, Verrah
Tanui, Joseph
Waititu, Anthony
Bourne, Mieke
Mowo, Jeremias
 
Publisher World Agroforestry - Research Data Repository
 
Description Strong and vibrant smallholder groups provide opportunities to the community to play a role in rural development and benefit from it. However, most of those groups do not have the capacity to individually influence rural development. Bringing groups together facilitates access to combined knowledge and leverages complementary assets. This study identifies factors influencing the success of two smallholder innovation platforms in Embu and Kapchorwa. A five-level likert scale survey questionnaire was administered to 68 groups from the two platforms that had experienced significant development in their group's capacity as a result of these platforms. Principal component analysis was used to extract indicators defining dimensions used to measure the success of these platforms. Multiple regression analysis was used to fit the model of successful linkages. The results indicate that ownership, motivation and leaders commitment skills and motives play critical roles in the success and sustainability of smallholder innovation platforms
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Social Sciences
Success factors
Smallholder innovation platforms
Collective action
Rural development
East Africa
 
Language English
 
Type Primary Data