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Analyzing the Opportunities and Pitfalls of Participation in International Agricultural and Environmental Development

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TLpq2382773668

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Analyzing the Opportunities and Pitfalls of Participation in International Agricultural and Environmental Development

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Castelin, Kimberly

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Ostrom, Marcia R.

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Washington State University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019

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119

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

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Washington State University

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2019

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Participation in development by those most affected by programs is increasingly encouraged by donor agencies; however, true participation often remains elusive and misunderstood in practice. This dissertation presents three manuscripts that apply different disciplinary lenses to the concept of participation. The first manuscript analyzes two cases using participation in monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems as a means to explain differences in project outcomes that aim to alter social ecological systems. The manuscript introduces a participatory matrix as a simple tool to assess participation in a project's M&E system. The cases relate participation in M&E to improved program outcomes including resource health, sustained livelihoods, and robust social structures. The second manuscript applies new institutional economic theory to the phenomenon of the decline of traditional irrigation systems, karez, as communities adopt pump wells. The study uses records on ecological, institutional, economic, and social factors from Iran and Pakistan spanning the 1950's through 2016, to analyze factors influencing displacement of karez. Evidence suggests that in the areas studied, alterations to institutions governing water and land left small-scale producers worse off, while benefitting large-scale producers. The third manuscript analyzes empirical data from the Afghanistan Agricultural Extension Program (AAEP). Program investment in capacity building activities for Farmer Field School (FFS) facilitators was significant yet use of the FFS approach in Afghanistan's extension system remained lower than expected. Quantitative data show a significant and positive effect of capacity building training on Farmer Field School facilitator use of FFS. Qualitative data give voice to extension worker and trained FFS facilitator explanations of FFS use by individuals highlighting both motivators and barriers.

Agricultural economics

Environmental science

Natural resource management

Castelin, Kimberly

Ostrom, Marcia R.

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