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Replication Data for: Addressing the paradox – the divergence between smallholders’ preference and actual adoption of agricultural innovations

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Title Replication Data for: Addressing the paradox – the divergence between smallholders’ preference and actual adoption of agricultural innovations
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.34725/DVN/GWUTMX
 
Creator Iiyama, Miyuki
Mukuralinda, Athanase
Ndayambaje, Jean Damascene
Musana, Bernard S
Ndoli, Alain
Mowo, Jeremias G
Garrity, Dennis
Ling, Stephen
Ruganzu, Vicky
 
Publisher World Agroforestry - Research Data Repository
 
Description Experiences in smallholder contexts indicate frequent mismatches between technologies introduced and needs of farmers who must make complex decisions in reallocating their limited resources under highly risky ecological and market contexts. This study proposes a cost- and time-effective, easy-to-implement approach to identify farmers’ priorities and critical intervention areas, and presents its application in guiding an agroforestry strategy in Rwanda. It was found that different tree species have distinctive enabling vs. constraining conditions under different agroecological contexts in the perspective of smallholder farmers. Tree species preferred by farmers were not necessarily widely adopted if multitudes of conditions were not enabling. The essential conditions for sustainable adoption include: quality materials/inputs are available; technologies are compatible with existing local farming systems; they are resilient to climate risks/resistant to pests-diseases; management is not complicated; and, there is guaranteed access to markets. The results show that there will not be a silver bullet national strategy to scale up agroforestry. Instead a matrix kind of strategies -to promote enabling conditions and address constraining conditions for priority species in specific agroecologies- will be required. The proposed concept should be further refined for wider agricultural technology transfer debates to break the myths of low uptakes by smallholders.
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Engineering
Agricultural technology adoption
Tools to assess farmers’ perceptions
Agroforestry
Smallholder systems
Sub-Saharan Africa
 
Language English
 
Contributor Moreto, Joshua
 
Type Survey Data
Socio-Economic Data