POUR UNE NOUVELLE ORIENTATION D'ACCOMPAGNEMENT : LA COMPOSANTE SOFTWARE DE L'INNOVATION AU CENTRE DE L'APPUI DE L'AGRICULTURE FAMILIALE AU MAROC
Résumé
Towards a new orientation for capacity-building : situating the software component of innovation at the core of support to family farming in Morocco. In order to achieve its agricultural policy objectives, the Moroccan government has developed programs of technology diffusion involving financial support. These programs focused on the introduction of equipments and technology, i.e. ,the 'hardware' component of innovation and not on farmers' capacity to manage the 'software' side of innovation. For the dairy sector, activities of development plans have allowed some improvement in the introduction of new cattle breeds, the use of new food and agricultural equipments. However, the results did not achieve planned objectives. Farmers have a lack of knowledge to manage introduced innovations. State supported activities for farmer capacity-building were not implemented in the most appropriate way and moreover became quantitatively limited with state withdrawal. In such context, farmers have developed knowledge networks: they exchange with pairs and with the different stakeholders involved in the dairy sector. A balance between the hardware,and software components of innovation is required for a new agricultural development strategy. This could be the best way to allow family farmers to improve their investment returns in technical innovations. Also, orgware organisational set-ups should take into account the current diversity of actual formal and informal knowledge networks. This implies to give the opportunity for professional organisations to play a role in such set-ups
Domaines
Agriculture, économie et politique
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