Small Farmer Mechanization in the Santa Cruz Colonization Zone: a Failure of Farming Systems Diagnosis?
- 3 October 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Experimental Agriculture
- Vol. 28 (4) , 453-460
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0014479700020160
Abstract
SUMMARY This paper uses survey results to show how one group of small scale farmers in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, were able to mechanize annual cropping despite a farming systems diagnosis which indicated that this was not a viable development path. It attempts to identify the underlying causes of farmer success and diagnosis failure.Keywords
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