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Impact Weaving: An Approach to Strengthening the Plausibility of Anticipated AR4D Impact Pathways

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  • Genowefa Blundo-Canto

    (CIRAD – UMR Innovation
    Univ Montpellier)

  • Gonzalo Rodríguez-Borray

    (Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA))

  • Ángela-Rocío Vásquez-Urriago

    (Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA))

  • María-Margarita Ramírez-Gómez

    (Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA))

  • Gregorio Zambrano-Moreno

    (Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA))

  • Leidy Tibaduiza-Castañeda

    (Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA))

  • Bellanid Huertas-Carranza

    (Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA))

  • Adriana Santacruz-Castro

    (Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA))

  • Beatriz-Elena Agudelo-Chocontá

    (Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA))

  • Guillaume Soullier

    (CIRAD, UMR ART-DEV
    ART-DEV, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, CNRS, Univ Montpellier 3, Univ Perpignan Via Domitia)

  • Claudio Proietti

    (CIRAD – DIMS)

  • Andrés-Daniel Mejía-Mejía

    (Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA))

  • Marie Ferré

    (CIRAD – UMR Innovation
    Univ Montpellier)

  • Aurelle Romemont

    (CIRAD – DIMS)

Abstract

The complex nature and multilevel scale of the challenges faced by agricultural research for development (AR4D) call for appropriate design and evaluation methods. At the design stage, this implies thinking about how new agricultural technologies enable certain changes within desirable future scenarios, and the systemic transformations needed for these technologies to have impacts. We have developed a method, called ‘Impact Weaving’, which combines participatory foresight and quantitative modelling to design more plausible anticipated impact pathways of the use of new technologies. Two case studies are used to present the method. We argue that time, skills and investment capacity are required to enable collective sense-making and to estimate the potential users of the technology. Nonetheless, applying this transdisciplinary approach at the early design stage will lead to more grounded technology dissemination that accounts for the constraints and aspirations of its users.

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  • Genowefa Blundo-Canto & Gonzalo Rodríguez-Borray & Ángela-Rocío Vásquez-Urriago & María-Margarita Ramírez-Gómez & Gregorio Zambrano-Moreno & Leidy Tibaduiza-Castañeda & Bellanid Huertas-Carranza & Adr, 2023. "Impact Weaving: An Approach to Strengthening the Plausibility of Anticipated AR4D Impact Pathways," The European Journal of Development Research, Palgrave Macmillan;European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI), vol. 35(2), pages 402-425, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:eurjdr:v:35:y:2023:i:2:d:10.1057_s41287-022-00566-6
    DOI: 10.1057/s41287-022-00566-6
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