Setting research priorities with farmers : complementarity of regional, farm and plot diagnoses to improve the competitiveness ans sustainability of Thai production systems

Trébuil Guy. 1992. Setting research priorities with farmers : complementarity of regional, farm and plot diagnoses to improve the competitiveness ans sustainability of Thai production systems. In : Sustainable agriculture : meeting the challenge today : Asian Farming Systems Symposium, 2-5 november 1992, Colombo, Sri Lanka. s.l. : s.n., 19 p. Asian Farming Systems Symposium, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 2 Novembre 1992/5 Novembre 1992.

Résumé : Since 1982, a Development-Oriented Research on Agrarian Systems (DORAS) approach has been sucessfully used at four complementary sites in southern, central and western Thailand to improve the competitiveness and sustainability of 50 to 80% of small-scale and resource-poor farming systems facing elimination. Setting research priorities in close collaboration with farmers was made through complementary diagnoses at regional, farm and plot levels. Based on the agrarian, agricultural production, cropping systems and itinerary of techniques concepts at each of these three complementary analytical scales, the theoretical framework and derived comparative, systemic and historical DORAS approach favors a relevant understanding of key interactions between bio-physical, technological factors or conditions and socio-economic circumstances. The finalised initial diagnosis emphasizes a comprehensive approach to fanner differentiation process and characterization of the functioning of the main types of farming systems. Farmer participation is again emphasized during design and testing of innovations to satisfy farmers objectives by using a rigorous articulation between on-farm experiments and agronomic surveys in farmers fields to design new types of trials. They aim at building different itineraries of techniques and cropping systems according to criteria in agreement with the functioning of target farming systems. Such farmer-researcher partnership guarantees the elaboration of well-adapted solutions and later accelerates their dissemination among organized producers. Evaluation of their adoption is carried out rapidly but systematically using a network of reference farms. Four complementary case studies from various Thai agroecosystems provide key illustrations, assessments of economic returns to investment in DORAS approach as well as future directions for theoretical and methodological research.

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• Trébuil Guy, CIRAD-CA (FRA) ORCID: 0000-0002-1370-4731

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