Social connectedness in marginal rural China: The case of farmer innovation circles in Zhidan, north Shaanxi

Wu, Bin; Pretty, Jules

doi:10.1023/b:ahum.0000014025.47576.72

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“…It seems a natural next step to measure household sector innovation, but only recently have a few development economists begun to consider this. Thus Wu (2003), and Wu and Pretty (2004), argue for the importance of household sector innovation, and document that farmers in poor, rural areas of China use informal networks to collaborate, and to develop new farming techniques.…”

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Comparing Business and Household Sector Innovation in Consumer Products: Findings from a Representative Study in the United Kingdom

2012

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In a first survey of its type, we measure development and modification of consumer products by product users in a representative sample of 1,173 UK consumers aged 18 and over. We estimate this previously unmeasured type of innovation to be quite large: 6.1% of UK consumers -nearly 2.9 million individuals -have engaged in consumer product innovation during the prior three years. In aggregate, consumers' annual product development expenditures are more than 1.4 times larger than the annual consumer product R&D expenditures of all firms in the UK combined.Consumers engage in many small projects which seem complementary to the innovation efforts of incumbent producers. Consumer innovators very seldom protect their innovations via intellectual property, and 17% diffuse to others. These results imply that official statistics partly miss relevant innovation activity, and that existing companies should reconfigure their product development systems to find and build upon prototypes developed by consumers.

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Comparing Business and Household Sector Innovation in Consumer Products: Findings from a Representative Study in the United Kingdom

2012

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“…En este sentido, el capital social sería similar al capital humano. La relación positiva entre un incremento del capital social y mejoras en el bienestar ha sido puesta de manifiesto en numerosos estudios (Narayan y Prichett, 1999;Fukuyama, 2000;Putnam, 2000;Schuller, 2001;Krishna, 2002;Wu y Pretty, 2004). En resumen, el capital social puede ser considerado como un activo puro que necesita inversión para su acumulación y que genera un flujo de beneficios.…”

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Estrategias para incrementar la participación en programas agroambientales: el papel del capital social

Barreiro‐Hurlé

Espinosa-Goded

Dupraz

2011

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RESUMEN:El carácter voluntario de los programas agroambientales hace que su éxito dependa del grado de aceptación por parte de los agricultores. La decisión de participación es compleja, ya que está condicionada por una gran variedad de factores. Este estudio amplía el análisis de la elección de la mejor alternativa de gestión para una explotación agraria en presencia de programas agroambientales analizando de manera explícita el papel que juega el capital social. Los resultados señalan la importancia de este concepto, tanto en medidas con escasos requisitos de cambio como en medidas más exigentes para los agricultores. PALABRAS CLAVE: Programas agroambientales, adopción, capital social.Clasificación JEL: Q12, Q58, C25. Strategies to increase participation in agri-environmental programmes:the role of social capital SUMMARY: The voluntary nature of agri-environmental programmes makes their success contingent on the adoption decision by farmers. This is a complex decision which cannot be explained in terms of a single construct. This paper extends the modelling of the selection of the best farm management option in the presence of agri-environmental programmes to consider explicitly the role of social capital, investigating both its structural and cognitive dimensions. The results support the idea that technical aspects alone are not sufficient to explain how best farm management plans are selected and suggest that social capital influences this decision both for low and high change requirement measures. KEYWORDS:Agri-environmental programmes, adoption, social capital. Agradecimientos: Este investigación ha sido financiada por el INIA-MICINN y los fondos FEDER en el marco del proyecto DISOPTIPOL (RTA2005-0020). JBH realizó este trabajo mientras estaba contratado por el programa de incorporación de doctores al sistema INIA-CCAA, parcialmente financiado por el Fondo Social Europeo. Los autores quieren agradecer los comentarios realizados por dos revisores anónimos y el comité editorial a la versión original remitida a la revista. Dichos comentarios han permitido mejorar la presentación del artículo publicado, por supuesto, cualquier error que persista en éste es responsabilidad única de los autores.Dirigir correspondencia a: Jesús Barreiro-Hurle.

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“…As a result, ''scientific and technological innovation is conceptualized as the result of networking building between heterogeneous actors'' (Schneider et al 2012, p. 244). Not limited to indigenous knowledge, the role of farmers has been significantly extended in this perspective as they have become one of the most important actors in building the communication networks between professionals (scientists and agricultural extension experts) and nature systems (Wu and Pretty 2004). Lorentzen (2010) calls for research on the connection between external technology transfer and local innovation diffusion, and on community or user-driven innovation.…”

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Farmer innovation diffusion via network building: a case of winter greenhouse diffusion in China

Zhang

2013

Agric Hum Values

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Farmer innovation diffusion (FID) in the developing world is not simply the adoption of an innovation made by farmers, but a process of communication and cooperation between farmers, governments, and other stakeholders. While increasing attention has been paid to farmer innovation, little is known about how farmers' innovations are successfully diffused. To fill this gap, this paper aims to address the following questions: What conditions are necessary for farmers to participate in FID? How is a collaborative network built up between farmers and stakeholders for this purpose? And what roles can government play? The above questions are addressed through analysis of the diffusion of winter greenhouse technology in China. A framework for analyzing a FID system is developed, and the conclusion is drawn that building mutual trust and collaborative networks is crucial for the success of FID. Furthermore, this network building can be broken down into various levels with different scales, speeds and consequences for FID: informal networks among farmers themselves, farmer-led networks, and government-facilitated networks. The success of government intervention depends upon building and enhancing the collaborative networks in which farmer leadership is crucial.

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Social connectedness in marginal rural China: The case of farmer innovation circles in Zhidan, north Shaanxi

Cited by 88 publications

References 24 publications

Comparing Business and Household Sector Innovation in Consumer Products: Findings from a Representative Study in the United Kingdom

Comparing Business and Household Sector Innovation in Consumer Products: Findings from a Representative Study in the United Kingdom

Estrategias para incrementar la participación en programas agroambientales: el papel del capital social

Farmer innovation diffusion via network building: a case of winter greenhouse diffusion in China

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