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Failures in agricultural innovation due to poor understanding of farmers’ predispositions

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  • Onjaherilanto Razanakoto
  • Rolland Razafindraibe
  • Andry Andriamananjara
  • Marie-Paule Razafimanantsoa
  • Tovohery Rakotoson
  • Erik Smolders
  • Lilia Rabeharisoa

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Development projects in Madagascar have increased and evolved for half a century, yet they have failed to enhance farmers’ performances. Related literature attributes the causes of failure as external to the project instigators, who are mostly institutions and funders. This article aims to highlight the role of development agents and their responsibility in unsuccessful projects. Participant observation of participatory learning and action research conducted in the Malagasy highlands revealed that non-consideration of the target audience’s rationale makes the innovation processes provided by development projects obsolete.

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  • Onjaherilanto Razanakoto & Rolland Razafindraibe & Andry Andriamananjara & Marie-Paule Razafimanantsoa & Tovohery Rakotoson & Erik Smolders & Lilia Rabeharisoa, 2018. "Failures in agricultural innovation due to poor understanding of farmers’ predispositions," Development in Practice, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(5), pages 691-704, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdipxx:v:28:y:2018:i:5:p:691-704
    DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2018.1471124
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    1. Coronese, Matteo & Occelli, Martina & Lamperti, Francesco & Roventini, Andrea, 2023. "AgriLOVE: Agriculture, land-use and technical change in an evolutionary, agent-based model," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 208(C).
    2. Yazeed Abdul Mumin & Awudu Abdulai & Renan Goetz, 2023. "The role of social networks in the adoption of competing new technologies in Ghana," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 74(2), pages 510-533, June.
    3. Matteo Coronese & Martina Occelli & Francesco Lamperti & Andrea Roventini, 2024. "Towards sustainable agriculture: behaviors, spatial dynamics and policy in an evolutionary agent-based model," LEM Papers Series 2024/05, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.

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