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["D.Harris" <<address removed>>]

Andy Hall calls for more integration of innovations across development 
programmes. There are numerous examples of where this has been possible 
(see recent contributions from, e.g. Richard Gibson) not least within 
the DFID-funded system itself. I have personal knowledge of several 
rural development programmes funded by DFID in which research outputs, 
and perhaps more importantly research approaches/processes, have been 
very successfully integrated. Participatory technology development 
involving varietal selection, on-farm seed priming, ergonomics, etc has 
played a major role in, for example, the GVT projects (formerly Kribhco) 
in eastern and western India and in the Lachi Poverty Reduction Project 
in Pakistan. This is the way it is supposed to work - DFID research 
contributing directly and in an integrated fashion to DFID development 
on the ground. Whatever one may think of the shortcomings of such 
stand-alone projects the farmers and, in some cases, the line agencies 
have benefited. The challenge is how to enable this integration on a 
larger scale.


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Dr Dave Harris         <address removed>

Centre for Arid Zone Studies
University of Wales
Bangor
Gwynedd
LL57 2UW
UK

Tel:  +44 1248 382922
Fax: +44 1248 371533

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