El presente Manual constituye una herramienta para que los extensionistas cuenten con buenas prácticas que les permitan hacer mejor su trabajo bajo un enfoque participativo y de articulación Investigadores-Extensionistas-Productores, en el marco de un sistema de innovación y de respeto a los saberes de los diferentes grupos participantes.
Rapid climatic and socio-economic changes challenge current agricultural R&D capacity. The necessary quantum leap in knowledge generation should build on the innovation capacity of farmers themselves. A novel citizen science methodology, triadic comparisons of technologies or tricot, was implemented in pilot studies in India, East Africa, and Central America. The methodology involves distributing a pool of agricultural technologies in different combinations of three to individual farmers who observe these technologies under farm conditions and compare their performance.