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3 - Lessons in Scaling Up

Farmers as a primary producers, longing to increase their income, stay in the buisness/market and therfore to raise productivity, reduce cost and minimize negative impact of their production systems are some of their wishes. The improvement of agricultural production is somehow not only the wish of the farmer. Policy makers, researcher and developmet workers/extension worker also wish the same idea.

What kind of attribute can be developed and what kind of research or support that are most effective in enhancing agriculture should be analysed.

Agricultural development is complex and diverse, and stakeholders often do not agree on the remedies and strategies that are best. How these approaches contribute to the different objectives of sustainable agriculture, and which research and support methodologies are most effective in enhancing agriculture development and large-scale application should also be analysed.

It is increasingly understood that conventional Green Revolution (GR) agriculture and top-down research and  development approaches have strong limitations. This explains the growing interest to learn lessons from alternative approaches that have spread to many farmers - ‘gone to scale’.

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