What is technography?

Jansen, Kees; Vellema, Sietze

doi:10.1016/j.njas.2010.11.003

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“…These adjustments were accomplished over several cropping seasons rather than in a single step, based on abstract logical analysis. We can think of this in technographic terms as a type of 'situated action' (Jansen and Vellema, 2011). The transplanting groups were not directly involved in field marking, yet the activities of marking and transplanting were nevertheless connected through their interaction in a sequence of activities undertaken in the same place, and other over successive seasons or 'rehearsals' of the farming performance they mutually shaped each other.…”

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“…This is what was required in order to analyse the knowledge, skills, and processes involved in the "making" (Vellema, 2002) of rice, and to understand the sociotechnical transformations that took place with the advent of SRI. The technographic approach was used to explore the interconnections and interactions between "materialities", "task groups" and their "rules and routines" (Jansen and Vellema, 2011) which contributed to the shaping of rice farming practices following the introduction of SRI. The technographic approach, using both qualitative and quantitative methods for data collection, provided detailed explanations and interpretations of various socio-technical interactions, under varying farm conditions and farmers' circumstances.…”

Section: Technography As a Methodological Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How Smallholder Farmers in Uttarakhand Reworked the System of Rice Intensification: Innovations from Sociotechnical Interactions in Fields and Villages

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2015

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How Smallholder Farmers in Uttarakhand Reworked the System of Rice Intensification: Innovations from Sociotechnical Interactions in Fields and VillagesThe System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is presented in Asia and other parts of the world as an alternative 'agro-ecological' and 'farm-based' innovation in rice production. SRI calls for modifications in crop-management practices without relying on external inputs, which makes it different from innovations based on new rice varieties, which became dominant since the Green Revolution. SRI practices are therefore said to be appropriate for resource-poor smallholder farmers.Previous studies on SRI have focused mainly on the yield effects in comparison with other crop management practices, overall costs and benefits of SRI or deviations from recommended practices. These studies have largely neglected farmers' underlying strategies. This thesis provides an understanding of whether and how SRI can be called a 'farm-based' innovation. Rather than returning to earlier debates about SRI's adoption and disadoption, the study looks as how farm households and communities in Western Himalayan region of India responded to the introduction of SRI.The main objective of this research was to understand how farmers respond to an intervention like SRI and what this tells us about SRI as a socio-technical system. The main research question addressed by this thesis is how SRI, conceived as a set of practices introduced from outside the communities, was incorporated into the local rice farming system. Specifically, the thesis examines how existing work groups were adjusted to accommodate the new method, how the SRI practices were interpreted and adjusted to fit with the local social and agro-ecological arrangements, and how the new method influenced existing rice farming practices in the locality.The research was carried out in three contrasting villages of Uttarakhand, located in the Bhilangana sub-basin of the Western Himalayan region of India. SRI was introduced in this area in 2008. Fieldwork in the three villages was conducted throughout two rice seasons.The theoretical resources drawn upon for this research include the concept of "sociotechnical system", "agriculture as performance", and the culture of "task groups". Together these concepts help to understand rice farming as a collective and mutually shaping social and technical performance rather than the activity of an individual farmer. The thesis shows how existing and new rice farming practices and task groups are reconfigured through socio-technical innovations within a given agroecological setting. SRI acted as a catalyst, initiating a process of readjustments in the socio-technical configurations of rice farming, varying according to the local context. Farm households, while incorporating SRI into the existing farming system, try to ii seek complementarity and synergy between various rice farming methods. This allows fluidity among task groups and leads to the extension and diversification of the repertoire of m...

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Section: Technography As a Methodological Approachmentioning

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How Smallholder Farmers in Uttarakhand Reworked the System of Rice Intensification: Innovations from Sociotechnical Interactions in Fields and Villages

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2015

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“…Technography is an interdisciplinary methodology for the detailed study of the use of skills, knowledge and techniques in everyday life (Richards 2001;Jansen and Vellema 2011). In the framework of agriculture, technography focuses on the ways by which farmers respond to opportunities, adapt to constraints and solve problems in the combined agro-ecological and socio-economic domains.…”

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Agricultural intensification in Nepal, with particular reference to systems of rice intensification

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“…This included 14 (16%) who withdrew from the project or did not disseminate vines (Laizer and Walsh 2012). Mixed methods involving both quantitative and qualitative data collection instruments were used to investigate the sweetpotato seed system as a social and technical configuration, including the processes and interactions within it (Jansen and Vellema 2011). Data were collected through a structured questionnaire with closed-ended questions to determine individual and group DVM characteristics, current and past season seed production practices and reasons for abandoning or continuing multiplication.…”

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Specialised Sweetpotato Vine Multiplication in Lake Zone, Tanzania: What “Sticks” and What Changes?

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Shikuku

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In Lake Zone, Tanzania, farmers were trained to multiply and distribute quality sweetpotato planting material. The objectives of this study were to assess changes in skills and practices among the trained farmers as vine multiplication became a specialized task. Nine months after the project ended, all 88 decentralized vine multipliers (DVMs) operating as groups (72%) or individuals (28%) were visited and qualitative data on their current multiplication practices collected through a questionnaire, checklists and observations. Results showed that 69% of DVMs were still multiplying vines, but less than half were using the seed production technologies promoted by the project. 34% used rapid multiplication beds; 61% used conventional plant spacing on ridges for roots and vines and 5% used both. As the vine multiplication cycle became a specialised activity, the multiplication and root production cycles were separated. Vines were treated differently in terms of site selection, length of cutting and spacing, depending on whether the objective of their use was for high root or high vine production. Capacity building of specialised vine multipliers and scaling-up seed interventions should consider the implications of skilling and task segregation in a broader context based on society’s choice of technologies and agrarian change.

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What is technography?

Cited by 91 publications

References 48 publications

How Smallholder Farmers in Uttarakhand Reworked the System of Rice Intensification: Innovations from Sociotechnical Interactions in Fields and Villages

How Smallholder Farmers in Uttarakhand Reworked the System of Rice Intensification: Innovations from Sociotechnical Interactions in Fields and Villages

Agricultural intensification in Nepal, with particular reference to systems of rice intensification

Specialised Sweetpotato Vine Multiplication in Lake Zone, Tanzania: What “Sticks” and What Changes?

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