{"id":2221,"date":"2025-01-09T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/?p=2221"},"modified":"2025-02-21T10:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T09:29:59","slug":"george-curry-aligning-innovation-processes-with-livelihood-and-socio-cultural-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/fr\/2025\/01\/09\/george-curry-aligning-innovation-processes-with-livelihood-and-socio-cultural-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"George Curry: Aligning innovation processes with livelihood and socio-cultural priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/files\/2024\/11\/Silvia-1-42-scaled-e1732716859756-1024x374.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/files\/2024\/11\/Silvia-1-42-scaled-e1732716859756-1024x374.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/files\/2024\/11\/Silvia-1-42-scaled-e1732716859756-300x109.jpg 300w, https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/files\/2024\/11\/Silvia-1-42-scaled-e1732716859756-768x280.jpg 768w, https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/files\/2024\/11\/Silvia-1-42-scaled-e1732716859756-1536x560.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/files\/2024\/11\/Silvia-1-42-scaled-e1732716859756-2048x747.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/makit.edu.umontpellier.fr\/files\/2024\/11\/Silvia-1-42-scaled-e1732716859756-600x219.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 9 January, George Curry will deliver a talk on &#8216;Aligning innovation processes with livelihood and socio-cultural priorities: towards an understanding of the socio-cultural and economic factors that influence innovation adoption in farming households in Papua New Guinea&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The low rate of technology adoption has long been recognised as a key constraint on improving productivity, income and yields in farming, particularly in developing countries where market-based systems of production are not well developed. While there is now a vast literature on the factors associated with innovation and technology adoption, most of this literature reports on correlations between propensity to adopt and household socio-demographic and economic characteristics such as age of household head, educational level, farm size and financial and capital assets. Much less studied is the role of socio-cultural factors and non-market values in adoption and innovation, that remain very much a black box in this field of research.&nbsp; In this presentation, I will begin to open the black box to begin a preliminary investigation of adoption and innovation along several socio-cultural and economic dimensions such as intra-household relations; tensions between modern and traditional farming practices in how labour is mobilised and remunerated; land access and tenure; and the indigenous socio-economic and cultural values underpinning production, consumption and distribution.&nbsp; This is not to deny the very real barriers to adoption and innovation posed by technical, financial and educational\/knowledge constraints, but to highlight the value of investigating the less well understood factors of indigenous values, habits, and socio-cultural institutions that can influence social innovation and technology adoption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 9 January, George Curry will deliver a talk on &#8216;Aligning innovation processes with livelihood and socio-cultural priorities: towards an understanding of the socio-cultural and economic factors that influence innovation adoption in farming households in Papua New Guinea&#8217;. 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