Farmer Participation in Upland Soil Conservation Research and Technology Dissemination in the Philippines
Standard methodologies for on farm research usually follow a set pattern of farming systems research and technology transfer. This model assumes that technologies which show promise under researchers' (controlled) conditions are sound, and that non-adoption is due to farmer of socio-economic problems. Farmer technical knowledge is usually ignored. This paper presents a detailed case study based on agricultural anthropological research of farmer experimentation (crop and cultivar choices) among migrant settlers in the Philippines.