Farmer Voice
ALINe works with development organisations to develop systems for managing farmer voice.
This section presents practical ways for organisations to ensure that they listen and respond effectively to farmers, at every stage of the project cycle. It is a resource we are building for the sector.
Our work builds on good practice and deep experience from across the sector. We particularly focus on building powerful feedback systems.
| Our key question is: how can development organisations make sure they listen and respond well enough to farmers, systematically, across different places or activities? |
The ALINe Farmer Voice Awards celebrate nine leading initiatives from around the world that strengthen farmer voice. They include feedback systems, radio programmes and farmer organisations.
Our work on feedback systems has identified key good-practice principles. Examples show how systems have been used in practice. More resources available here.
During 2010, we will run pilots and publish more resources on managing farmer voice.
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Farmer voice
By 'farmer voice' we mean the practice of ensuring that smallholder farmers' voices are seriously and consistently taken into account in planning, assessing, reporting on and learning from a programme's work.
Farmer voice includes hearing from different farmers during the programme cycle and responding to what they say.
This work used to be a separate initiative, the "Farmer Voice Initiative" hosted on www.farmer-voice.org. It is now hosted on this website.
