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| Abstract title: | Participatory design of agroforestry systems: developing farmer participatory research methods in Mexico |
| Author: | Jeremy Haggar, Alejandro Ayala, Blanca Díaz, and Carlos Uc Reyes |
| Issue: | Volume 11, Number 4 - 2001 |
Participatory research that combines the knowledge of farmers and researchers promotes the development of a variety of agroforestry options that may meet the various needs of different farmers, and thus exploits one of the greatest strengths of agroforestryits plasticity. The design and evaluation of agroforestry systems with eight farmer research groups in south-east Mexico was conducted through surveys of individual production aims and limitations, and through group identification, testing, and analysis of production alternatives. Farmer trials were used as a basis for agroforestry development projects implemented by community and government organisations, thus disseminating technologies that had been tested and adapted by local farmers
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