Building agroecology with people. Challenges of participatory methods to deepen on the agroecological transition in different contexts

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel López-García ◽  
Mamen Cuéllar-Padilla ◽  
Alexandre de Azevedo Olival ◽  
Nina Paula Laranjeira ◽  
V. Ernesto Méndez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Agroecological Transition

Participatory catchment management — an opportunity for Southern Africa

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 145-151
Author(s):  
D. B. Versfeld
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Participatory Rural Appraisal ◽  
Catchment Management ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Kwazulu Natal ◽  
Rural Appraisal

South Africa has hundreds of thousands of hectares of heavily populated and badly degraded landscapes. Past attempts at land management have been either through avoidance or the top-down imposition of “betterment” schemes. Participatory methods offer a new opportunity for communities living within these catchments to share their knowledge and to become involved in planning and implementing the management process. This paper discusses the use of Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) in a catchment rehabilitation programme in rural KwaZulu/Natal, the lessons learnt and the prospects for wider application.

scholarly journals Participatory Research Approaches in Times of Covid-19: A Narrative Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110100
Author(s):  
Johanna Hall ◽  
Mark Gaved ◽  
Julia Sargent
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Research ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Research Issue ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Narrative Literature ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Literature Base ◽  
Narrative Literature Review ◽  
Participatory Research Methods

This review aims to collate and organize the current literature base on the use of participatory research methods within Covid-19 and pandemic contexts. Participatory approaches rely on establishing trust and rapport between researchers and participants and advocate actively involving participants in the planning, implementation and evaluation of a research issue. However, by transitioning such approaches to an online and geographically distributed context, the openness and equitability of participatory approaches may be reduced or lost. By providing an overview of current empirical and guidance literature on the use of participatory approaches within the context of Covid-19, this review not only offers a basis for how a variety of methods may be used and adapted to distanced contexts, but also explicates the challenges associated with the use of these methods and the wider methodological implications posed by the Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, this review outlines the issues associated with conducting this type of research more generally, providing implications for how distance-based participatory methods may be used in wider contexts where face-to-face interaction may not be appropriate, or fieldwork may be disrupted due to logistical reasons.

Designing For Diversity: Implications for Research and Practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 563-567
Author(s):  
Abigail R. Wooldridge ◽  
Rod D. Roscoe ◽  
Rod D. Roscoe ◽  
Shannon C. Roberts ◽  
Rupa Valdez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Team Science ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Sampling Strategies ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Sociotechnical System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Diversity Committee ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

The Diversity Committee of HFES has led sessions at the Annual Meeting for the past three years focused on improving diversity, equity and inclusion in the society as well as providing support to human factors and ergonomics (HF/E) researchers and practitioners who aim to apply HF/E knowledge and principles to improve diversity, equity and inclusion through their work. In this panel, we bring together researchers actively engaged in designing technology and systems by considering issues of diversity, equity and inclusion to share insights and methods. Topics include the thoughtful design of sampling strategies and research approaches, alternative and participatory methods to understand the impact of automation and technology on equity, scoping design problems to be inclusive and equitable through interdisciplinary partnerships, and the application of sociotechnical system design and team science to develop interdisciplinary teams. By sharing our experiences, we hope to prepare others to successfully approach these topics.

scholarly journals Citizenship Education for Political Engagement: A Systematic Review of Controlled Trials

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Steven Donbavand ◽  
Bryony Hoskins
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
The Political ◽  
Controlled Trials ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Whole School ◽  
Online Engagement

Citizenship Education could play a pivotal role in creating a fairer society in which all groups participate equally in the political progress. But strong causal evidence of which educational techniques work best to create political engagement is lacking. This paper presents the results of a systematic review of controlled trials within the field based on transparent search protocols. It finds 25 studies which use controlled trials to test causal claims between Citizenship Education programs and political engagement outcomes. The studies identified largely confirm accepted ideas, such as the importance of participatory methods, whole school approaches, teacher training, and doubts over whether knowledge alone or online engagement necessarily translate into behavioral change. But the paucity of identified studies also points both to the difficulties of attracting funding for controlled trials which investigate Citizenship Education as a tool for political engagement and real epistemological tensions within the discipline itself.

scholarly journals Making the Most of Culture and Context

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 160940691879843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liesel Ebersöhn ◽  
Marlize Malan-Van Rooyen
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Visual Data ◽  
Indigenous Psychology ◽  
Elicitation Methods ◽  
Sociocultural Perspectives ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Border Communities ◽  
Contextual Characteristics

Research aimed at generating evidence to address elicitation challenges that arise because of extreme inequality and marginalized perspectives requires deliberation on relevant methodologies that can elicit insights by both revering marginalized sociocultural strengths and being sensitive to power imbalances. In this article, we provide examples of participatory methods that make the most of often silenced non-Western sociocultural strengths and create opportunities for participation despite barriers due to inequality. The examples emerged from multiple researcher journals and visual data from a study that documented indigenous psychology on resilience with elders ( n = 24; male = 10, female = 14) and young people ( n = 48; male = 21, female = 27) in two remote Southern African border communities. We describe the examples of elicitation methods to make the most of culture using (i) symbols that reflect nonmainstream sociocultural perspectives, (ii) familiar multiliteracies, (iii) a variety of spoken languages, and (iv) familiar collectivist modes, as well as contextual characteristics to (i) equalize opportunity given structural disparity, (ii) equalize power, and (iii) honor gender and age hierarchies. We conclude that methods for indigenous research can honor and leverage marginalized cultures and contexts to extend beyond sympathy for an oppressed worldview or a context of deprivation.

Industrial agriculture and agroecological transition systems: A comparative analysis of productivity results, organic matter and glyphosate in soil

2018 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 103-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aparicio Virginia ◽  
Martín Zamora ◽  
Agustín Barbera ◽  
Mauricio Castro-Franco ◽  
Marisa Domenech ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Industrial Agriculture ◽  
Transition Systems ◽  
Agroecological Transition
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