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Recognizing farmer-generated innovations through contests: insights from four African countries

机译：通过比赛认识到农民生成的创新：四个非洲国家的见解

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Despite the recognition that farmers are an important source of agricultural innovations, farmer-generated innovations have received little attention from researchers. This paper presents the experiences and outcomes of applying contests to elicit farmer-generated innovations and to reward outstanding farmer innovators in selected districts in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi and Zambia. The contests attracted 349 eligible entries, most of which were submitted by male innovators. The identified innovations were mainly technically-oriented practices, and only very few institutional innovations were recognized. The most common domains of innovations were related to livestock, crop management, and soil and water management. In particular, many of the innovators were using local resources to develop plant-based biopesticides and ethnoveterinary medicines in order to reduce production costs and improve food production. The findings of this study suggest that farmers are active experimenters who continuously generate remarkable and locally adapted innovations, which can indirectly contribute to efforts to achieve sustainable agricultural intensification or to make agriculture climate smart. The study concludes that farmers possess valuable ethnobotanical knowledge and innovation-generating potential that need to be harnessed and supported; and contest is an effective means to scout and acknowledge farmer innovators while simultaneously raising awareness of the farmer innovation approach among relevant stakeholders.
机译：尽管承认农民是农业创新的一个重要来源，但农民产生的创新从研究人员收到了很少的关注。本文介绍了竞选农民生成的创新的经验和结果，并奖励埃塞俄比亚，肯尼亚，马拉维和赞比亚所选地区的优秀农民创新者。比赛吸引了349条资格的参赛作品，其中大部分由男性创新者提交。所确定的创新主要是通过技术为导向的实践，只有很少的机构创新得到认可。最常见的创新域与牲畜，作物管理和土壤和水管理有关。特别是，许多创新者正在利用当地资源开发基于植物的生物农药和民族医学药物，以降低生产成本并改善粮食生产。本研究的调查结果表明，农民是积极的实验者，他们不断产生了非凡和本地适应的创新，可以间接促进实现可持续农业强化或使农业气候聪明的努力。该研究的结论是，农民拥有有价值的民族典型知识和创新产生的潜力，需要利用和支持;竞争是侦察和承认农民创新者的有效手段，同时提高相关利益攸关方之间对农民创新方法的认识。

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