Farmers, institutions and technology in agricultural change processes: outcomes from Adaptive Research on rice production in Sulawesi, Indonesia

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 166-186

  Flor, Rica Joy ^a,b   Singleton, Grant ^a   Casimero, Madonna ^a   Abidin, Zainal ^c   Razak, Nasruddin ^c   Maat, Harro ^b   Leeuwis, Cees ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL RICE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Philippines)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Assessment Institute for Agricultural Technologies   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Adaptive Research; innovation systems perspective; monitoring; rice; socio technical change; technology adoption

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHANGE; AGRICULTURAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH; CROP PRODUCTION; FARMERS ATTITUDE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; RICE; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

GREATER SUNDA ISLANDS; INDONESIA; SULAWESI; SUNDA ISLES;

EID: 84957842229     PISSN: 14735903     EISSN: 1747762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14735903.2015.1066976     Document Type: Article

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