The Application of PRRA in Chinese Rural Development Research
Noting the origins of RRA and PRA outside China, the authors propose æPRRAÆ as a Chinese adaptation. Its characteristics are participation in data collection and analysis, rapidity of the process, use of many methods to collect accurate information, and its use of a systems perspective of rural environmental and socio-economic phenomena. The stages of a æPRRAÆ process in a soil conservation and mountain development project in three villages in Zhejiang province, China, are described in the bulk of the article.