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Overcoming barriers to social inclusion in agricultural intensification: reflections on a transdisciplinary community development project from India and Bangladesh.
- Source :
- Community Development Journal; Jan2024, Vol. 59 Issue 1, p87-107, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- We describe a research-for-development (R4D) strategy developed to address how investments and interventions in agricultural intensification as a means to achieve community development can be designed to be more socially inclusive and equitable. We draw on results from a 5-year project – Promoting socially inclusive and sustainable agricultural intensification in West Bengal (India) and southern Bangladesh (SIAGI). We reflect on a major pivot in the project's strategy, from being primarily research-driven to placing community concerns and priorities at the centre with a shift towards Ethical Community Engagement (ECE). This became the foundational framework which guided the definition and undertaking of all subsequent activities – including a rethink of methods and concepts to develop tools and frameworks fit for purpose and local context, and inculcating a culture of reflexivity and mutual learning in the project. We show that creating the conditions for true participation, where project beneficiaries and non-government organizations are equal partners alongside researchers and government actors, and for co-learning using the ECE framework, sets the foundations for increased and potentially enduring social inclusion in agricultural intensification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COMMUNITY development
SOCIAL integration
AGRICULTURAL intensification
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00103802
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Community Development Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 174880681
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsad005