Robert ChambersIan Scoones and John ThompsonAndy HallJacqueline A. AshbyJean Claude Rubyogo and Louise SperlingJohn Witcombe and Krishna Devkota and Daljit Virk and Krishna Rawal and Satish Prasad and Vikas Kumar and Krishna JoshiOscar Ortiz and Ricardo Orrego and Willy Pradel and Peter Gildemacher and Renee Castillo and Ronal Otiniano and Julio Gabriel and Juan Vallejo and Omar Torres and Gebremehdin Woldegiorgis and Belew Damene and Rogers Kakuhenzire and Imelda Kashaija and Ignatius KahiuRavi Prabhu and Carol Colfer and Chimere Diaw and Cynthia McDougall and Robert FisherYan Zhao-LiNorman UphoffC. Shambu PrasadTodd A. CraneClive Lightfoot and Vincon NyimboMichael KibueDindo Campilan and Julieta R. Roa and Julian GonsalvesJulieta R. RoaJemimah Njuki and Susan Kaaria and Pascal Sanginga and Elly Kaganzi and Tennyson MagomboSusan Kaaria and Pascal Sanginga and Jemimah Njuki and Robert Delve and Colletah Chitsike and Rupert BestDavid J. Spielman and Frank Hartwich and Klaus von GrebmerBino Témé and Oumar Niangado and Samba Traoré and Salif KantéGospel O. Omanya and Francis Nang'ayo and Richard Boadi and Nancy Muchiri and Hodeba Mignouna and Mpoko BokangaAndy PetersDominic GloverBeatriz P. del RosarioNduati KariukiCecilia TurinMaria Arce Moreira and Patrick M. MulvanyElizabeth Vargas and William BurgoaKhamarunga BandaMonty P. Jones and Sidi SanyangAnn Waters-Bayer and Chesha Wettasinha and Laurens van VeldhuizenAssétou KanoutéAmanuel AssefaScott KilloughOliver OliverosBernard Triomphe and Henri Hocdé and Guy FaureEdith van WalsumAwa Faly BaAnil GuptaPatrick Mulvany and Maria Arce MoreiraV. Rasheed SulaimanLi Xiaoyun and Qi Gubo and Xu Xiuli and Mao MiankuiQi Gubo and Li Xiaoyun and Xu Xiuli and Dindo Campilan and Ronnie VernooyRuth Meinzen-DickJamie Watts and Douglas HortonBoru Douthwaite and Martin GummertPaul Van MeleAhmad Salahuddin and Paul Van Mele and Noel P. MagorYunita T. WinartoRichard Ewbank and Aloyce Kasindei and Faithrest Kimaro and Salutary SlaaHlamalani Ngwenya and Jüet;rgen HagmannRobert TrippPaul RichardsJüet;rgen Hagmann and Paul Kibwika and Adipala EkwamuAndy CatleyMaria E. Fernandez and Oscar OrtizLi Xiaoyun and Xu Xiuli and Qi Gubo and Lu Min and Ronnie VernooyNiels Röet;ling and Janice JigginsRobert E. RhoadesJethro PettitAdrienne MartinIrene GuijtBoru Douthwaite and Sophie Alvarez and Graham Thiele and Ronald MackayPascal C. Sanginga and Annet Abenakyo and Rick Kamugisha and Adrienne M. Martin and Robert MuziraDawit Abebe and Andy Catley and Berhanu Admassu and Gezu BekeleIan Scoones and John Thompson

Figures	p. xi
Tables	p. xii
Boxes	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Foreword	p. xix
Part I Revisiting Farmer First
Farmer First revisited: innovation for agricultural research and development	p. 3
Challenges to strengthening agricultural innovation systems: where do we go from here?	p. 30
Fostering Farmer First methodological innovation: organizational learning and change in international agricultural research	p. 39
Part II Systems of innovation
Opening Note	p. 49
Farmer participatory research and adaptive management
Developing seed systems in Africa	p. 52
Client-oriented breeding and seed supply	p. 57
Learning from experience: potato innovation systems and participatory research	p. 61
Action research with local forest users and managers: lessons from CIFOR's research on adaptive collaborative management	p. 66
Co-management of rangeland resources in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region: involving farmers in the policy process	p. 71
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) as a system of agricultural innovation	p. 73
Encounters, dialogues and learning alliances: the System of Rice Intensification in India	p. 82
If farmers are first, do pastoralists come second? Political ecology and participation in central Mali	p. 88
Engaging with markets and the private sector
The First Mile experience: connecting farmers to markets	p. 92
Linking learners: livestock marketing chain development in Kenya	p. 95
Beyond the farmer and the farm: users' perspectives and agricultural livelihoods	p. 97
Continuing improvement and innovation in the market chain of rootcrop chips	p. 101
Community agro-enterprise development: experience from Uganda and Malawi	p. 106
Enabling rural innovation in Africa	p. 111
Public-private partnerships and developing-country agriculture	p. 116
Including boxes on: Committing for the long term	p. 118
African Agricultural Technology Foundation	p. 120
The Global Alliance for Livestock Veterinary Medicines (GALVmed)	p. 121
The Monsanto Smallholder Programme	p. 124
Part III The politics of demand and organizational change
Opening Note	p. 127
Farmers' Organizations
Fostering farmer-scientist research collaboration: the role of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers	p. 131
Promoting farmer-centred research in Kenya	p. 132
Advocacy coalitions to build participatory processes in the Altiplano: increasing human capacities to adapt to change	p. 134
Farmers' movements and the struggle for food sovereignty in Latin America	p. 135
Farmers' participation in policy advocacy processes in Bolivia	p. 137
Beyond black and white: the National African Farmers' Union of South Africa	p. 140
The politics of inclusion in African agricultural research and development	p. 141
Networks and partnerships
Building partnerships to promote local innovation processes	p. 144
Including a box on: Promoting Farmer Innovation and Experimentation in the Sahel (PROFEIS)	p. 145
Participatory Innovation Development in Ethiopia	p. 150
Partnerships for action research	p. 153
The DURAS project: funding research partnerships	p. 158
Research involving multi-stakeholder partnerships	p. 161
Learning to value LEISA: experience in global knowledge networking for Low External Input Sustainable Agriculture	p. 163
Communicating farmers' knowledge: Agridape and Profeis experiences	p. 168
Network, institution and movement: the case of the Honey Bee network	p. 169
Food sovereignty: a farmer-led policy framework	p. 174
Large public R&D organizations
Farmer first or still last? Uneven institutional development in the Indian agricultural innovation system	p. 180
Emergence of farmer-centred agricultural science and technology policy in China	p. 185
Including a box on: The Farmer-Centred Research Network, China	p. 189
Reflections on the CGIAR Systemwide Program on Collective Action and Property Rights (CAPRi)	p. 190
Institutional learning and change in the Cgiar system	p. 195
Learning selection revisited	p. 198
Part IV New professionalism, learning and change
Opening note	p. 205
Extension: from diffusion to networks
Strengthening rural extension	p. 207
Institutionalizing values-based research: lessons from the Petrra Project, Bangladesh	p. 212
Putting farmers first in Indonesia: the case of Farmer Field Schools	p. 215
Farmer participatory research in northern Tanzania: Farm-Africa's experience	p. 218
Facilitation for change: triggering emancipation and innovation in rural communities in South Africa	p. 220
Crop management innovation and the economics of attention	p. 229
Knowledge networks and farmer seed systems	p. 233
Rethinking agricultural education
Learning to make change: developing innovation and change competence in African universities	p. 238
From marginal to normative: institutionalizing participatory epidemiology	p. 247
Agricultural innovation for rural development: a Master's programme for professionals working in rural areas in Peru	p. 255
Mainstreaming participatory rural development studies in China	p. 258
Making trans-disciplinary science work for resource-poor farmers	p. 264
Participation, paternalism and practicality: reconciling sustainability science and indigenous agendas	p. 268
Power, progression and regression in learning for agriculture and development	p. 271
Impact assessment and learning
So what difference does it make? Assessing the outcomes and impacts of farmer participatory research	p. 276
Monitoring for collective learning in rural resource management	p. 282
Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis	p. 290
Tracking the impact of policy task forces in Uganda	p. 293
Using Participatory Impact Assessment (PIA) to inform policy: lessons from Ethiopia	p. 296
Part V Looking Forward
The future of the Farmer First movement: towards an innovation alliance	p. 303
Appendix 1 List of participants and contributors	p. 311
References	p. 323
Index	p. 343