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| Citation | Saikawa, Junko. “The Role of Internediary Organizations in Development: A Case Study of the Lower Moshi Agricultural Development Project in Tanzania.” Regional Development Studies 4 (1998): 135-150. | ||
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| Year | 1998 | ||
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| Material Type | Journal Article | ||
| Features | 41 notes; 1 additional reference; 2 tables; 4 figures (some maps) | ||
| Pages | p. 135-150 | ||
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AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT 07.01.02 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 14.04.01 FARMERS' ASSOCIATIONS 13.06.01 INDONESIA 01.04.04 INTERVIEWS 18.04.01 VILLAGES 14.04.02 | ||
| Abstract | This article describes a self-initiated community development programme which was implemented in a rural area in Yogyakarta Special Region (Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, hereinafter referred to as the DIY), Indonesia. The impacts of the programme will also be assessed in order to explore possible ways to empower local farmers. This will be done by examining how "knowledge" was strategically used to design and implement the programme. Especially after the introduction of Indonesia's First Five-Year Development Plan 1969/70-1973/74 (REPELITA I), a new agricultural policy was adopted which aimed to integrate farming into the national economy. This resulted in increasing the farmers' feelings of powerlessness. In this context, a self-initiated community development programme was implemented in 1990 in the village (desa) of Sumber Mulyo in Bantul Regency (hereinafter, Kabupaten Bantul) of the DIY. A dynamic and strategic approach to designing and implementing the movement's programme was adopted, which could be summarized as follows: (a) the farmers' needs were studied by residents and a programme was designed to reflect the needs of beneficiaries; (b) the problems faced by farmers were framed in a global context, i.e. explanations were provided on how farmers' problems were structurally related to global problems; (c) despite the programme's broad-based objectives, the identity of the groups involved and the programme's identity were clearly delineated; and (d) activities were carried out through noninstitutional channels. --Journal abstract | ||
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