Benchmark Study. A Research Partnership with Farmers: The Case of CENTA in El Salvador

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dc.creatorHobbs, S. Huntington
dc.creatorLarios, J. F.
dc.creatorArias Milla, F. R.
dc.creatorVides, Jose Eduardo
dc.date1997
dc.date2024-01-04T07:47:42Z
dc.date2024-01-04T07:47:42Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:18:09Z
dc.descriptionIn 1990, the Government of El Salvador closed the National Center for Agricultural Technology (Spanish acronym: CENTA) and dismissed its 2700 staff. A few months later, it reopened the institute with a staff of 700, and gave it a clear task: to become an efficient and effective organization. The new CENTA leadership worked to create a new organization, in which the farmer would play a key role. The research partnership it built with farmers is based on five critical practices: (1) improving CENTA's access to farmers, (2) collecting in-depth information about farmers, (3) involving farmers in research planning, (4) involving farmers in research implementation, and (5) sharing research information with farmers. In a short time, CENTA improved the well-being of an impressive number of farmers and documented these improvements. For these reasons, ISNAR recorded CENTA's procedures for working with farmers as a "benchmark" for agricultural research organizations. A benchmark is an example of a particularly successful management practice from one organization that is documented and used as a model for other organizations. This Briefing Paper is the second of a series of benchmarks that ISNAR is documenting from national agricultural research organizations in developing countries. The intent is that these benchmarks will inspire other research organizations to copy or adapt aspects of the successful management practices described.
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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/136236
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/154379
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Service for National Agricultural Research
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceHobbs, S. Huntington, Larios, J. F., Arias Milla, F. R., Vides, Jose Eduardo. 1997. Benchmark Study. A Research Partnership with Farmers: The Case of CENTA in El Salvador. International Service for National Agricultural Research
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectresearch
dc.subjectfarms
dc.subjecttechnology transfer
dc.subjectparticipatory approaches
dc.subjectmanagement
dc.subjectresearch institutions
dc.subjectcase studies
dc.titleBenchmark Study. A Research Partnership with Farmers: The Case of CENTA in El Salvador
dc.typeBrief

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