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Participatory Research: A Tool for Generating Acceptable Technologies for Women Farmers

Participatory Research is a process of collaborative learning undertaken jointly by professional researchers and local community members, leveraging the stakeholders? respective strengths and skills to develop solutions that are scientifically valid and, most importantly, imbued with local wisdom and cultural context. For instance, in traditional sectarian society like ours, if all women get a chance of self-introduction in a group of village women club, it will help them to see the similarities in their situation. This act of introduction, a very small act in itself, has tremendous effect on their confidence and creates familiarity among themselves. Assembly of the group and discussion on certain problems will lead to collective and systematic analysis of the situation. This paper reflects the Participatory Research (PR) process at conceptual level with the help of two structural diagrams which motivates to strengthen the existing experimental capacity of women farmers and to encourage continuation of the innovations process under local control.