Profile characteristics of farmer innovators in generation of innovations and re-inventions
Generation of farmer innovations and re-inventions is not a new phenomenon to the farming community. Farmer innovations and re-inventions is a subject that is increasingly making people sit up and think. At the very least it underpins a refreshing new approach to indigenous environmental knowledge that goes further than just passive admiration. At the most it is a potentially important new direction for research and extension wherever else the conventional approaches have failed to deliver.