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dc.date.accessioned2010-09-13T09:11:49Z
dc.date.available2010-09-13T09:11:49Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.identifier.issn1612-9830
dc.identifier.uriurn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2010082734305
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/2010082734305
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherKassel University Pressger
dc.rightsUrheberrechtlich geschützt
dc.rights.urihttps://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectOrganic agricultureeng
dc.subjectEnabling innovationeng
dc.subjectLearningeng
dc.subjectUgandaeng
dc.subject.ddc630
dc.titleLearning achievements of farmers during the transition to market-oriented organic agriculture in rural Ugandaeng
dc.typeAufsatz
dcterms.abstractOrganic agriculture requires farmers with the ability to develop profitable agro-enterprises on their own. By drawing on four years of experiences with the Enabling Rural Innovation approach in Uganda, we outline how smallholder farmers transition to organic agriculture and, at the same time, increase their entrepreneurial skills and competences through learning. In order to document this learning we operationalised the Kirkpatrick learning evaluation model, which subsequently informed the collection of qualitative data in two study sites. Our analysis suggests that the Enabling Rural Innovation approach helps farmers to develop essential capabilities for identifying organic markets and new organic commodities, for testing these organic commodities under varying organic farm management scenarios, and for negotiating contracts with organic traders. We also observed several obstacles that confront farmers’ transition to organic agriculture when using the Enabling Rural Innovation approach. These include the long duration of agronomic experimentation and seed multiplication, expensive organic certification procedures and the absence of adequate mechanism for farmers to access crop finance services. Despite prevailing obstacles we conclude that the Enabling Rural Innovation approach provides a starting point for farmers to develop entrepreneurial competences and profitable agro-enterprises on their own.eng
dcterms.accessRightsopen access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationIn: Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics. Kassel : Kassel University Press. - Vol. 111, No. 1 (2010), S. 1-11
dcterms.creatorHauser, Michael
dcterms.creatorAigelsperger, Lisa
dcterms.creatorOwamani, Amos
dcterms.creatorDelve, Robert J.
dc.description.everythingGedruckte Ausg. im Verlag Kassel Univ. Press (www.upress.uni-kassel.de) erschienen.ger


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