Technology Transfer and Everyday Life among Smallholder Farmers: Notes on the Small Inconveniences that Slow the Transition to Industrial Agriculture in Ethiopia

IF 0.5 Q4 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Perspectives on Global Development and Technology Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI:10.1163/15691497-12341614
S. Negatu, Elizabeth Holzer, E. Atsbeha, K. Kirksey
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Global technology transfers reshape agriculture with profound influences on everyday life. Substantial research has documented broader constraints that influence technology transfer among farmers, yet existing theories give us a narrow view into how wider dynamics manifest in everyday life. Using tractor farming in Ethiopia as a case study with ethnographic and historical data, we contribute an account of the everyday social and ecological interactions that shape agricultural technology transfer as well as the wider historical context in which these practices play out. Historically, we find an uneven transition that faltered repeatedly over 50 years. Ethnographically, we identify three types of interplays between actors and the local ecology that shaped the ways that faltering technology transfer actually plays out on the ground: (1) socio-ecological frictions; (2) communicative frictions; and (3) status-based frictions. This study contributes a humanistic account of how farmers and local technology providers experience technology transfers.
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小农户的技术转让和日常生活:关于埃塞俄比亚向工业化农业过渡的小不便的说明
全球技术转让重塑农业,对日常生活产生深远影响。大量的研究已经记录了影响农民之间技术转让的更广泛的制约因素,然而现有的理论让我们对日常生活中更广泛的动态表现的看法很狭隘。以埃塞俄比亚的拖拉机农业为例,结合民族志和历史数据,我们对影响农业技术转让的日常社会和生态相互作用以及这些实践发挥作用的更广泛的历史背景进行了研究。从历史上看,我们发现一个不平衡的过渡,在50多年中反复动摇。从民族志上讲,我们确定了参与者与当地生态之间的三种相互作用类型,这些相互作用形成了技术转移在当地实际发挥的方式:(1)社会生态摩擦;(2)交际摩擦;(3)基于地位的摩擦。本研究对农民和当地技术提供者如何经历技术转移提供了一种人文主义的解释。
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期刊介绍: Perspectives on Global Development and Technology (PGDT) is a peer-reviewed journal for the discussion of current social sciences research on diverse socio-economic development issues that reflect the opportunities and threats brought about by the world order shift from bipolar to global, the present economic liberalization that constricts development options, and the new enabling technologies of the Information Age. A founding principle of PGDT is that all people are entitled to scientific and technological knowledge to promote human development. PGDT is the international forum where the questions associated with this endeavour are thoroughly examinated and clearly communicated.
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