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Experiments with Farmers
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Dated: October 2024
Making research genuinely participatory is a complex process. Despite 30 years of ‘participatory’ research, this label often means farmers not contributing much more than free labour, with researchers doing everything else. Ways of making research more participatory have been discussed from an institutional and a social perspective, so these videos focus on the technical issues surrounding truly participatory research. We discuss the implications of farmers helping to design experiments (for example, by choosing treatments). We also explore ideas on participatory analysis and other activities that farmers can be involved in during the research.
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Experiments with Farmers I - "Why?"
This video introduces the idea of Experiments with Farmers and explores five reasons to involve farmers in you...
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Experiments with Farmers II - What happens to designs?
This video explores the details of the way in which experiments with farmers could be designed, using a variet...
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Experiments with Farmers III - "From noise to information"
This video gives some examples of how to look at data from on-farm trials in a slightly different way, enablin...
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Experiments with Farmers IV - "Farmers are not replicates!"
Replication is often a point of confusion for researchers. Often, researchers conducting on-farm trials will s...
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Experiments with Farmers V - "Communicating the design"
Communication is vital when conducting experiments with farmers. This video discusses some of the issues of ho...