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From Research Plots to Farmer Adoption: approach for Agroforestry Research and Development Interaction
(1996) Atta-Kra, K.
Traditionally, research and extension/development have existed as separate activities, usually in separate government institutions. Conventional wisdom has always seen research as generating technologies and passing on these technologies to the development and extension organisations for transfer to farmers. In several instances, especially in the case of farming systems and natural resource management technologies (e.g. agroforestry), this simplistic model has not worked. There has always been a gap between research and development, which tends to work against the whole concept of technology transfer. This phase of research development interaction is termed in this paper as developmental on-farm research (devOFR). The paper presents dev-OFR as a legitimate component of research and argues that it is essential for enhancing technology transfer for impact development of agroforestry research.