Debate: Why aren’t farmers using agricultural tech?

Ouronline debate于6月9日星期二举行。在两个小时的时间里，我们的专家小组帮助引导了关于为什么发展中国家的农民通过采用更多创新技术来提高生产率的讨论。

Delivering food security for everyone on the planet is a monumental challenge. The global population is set to increase by overtwo billion到2050年，再加上收入的增加，这将不可避免地导致对食物的需求增加。然而，由于灌溉过度，土壤侵蚀，气候变化和越来越多的水短缺的影响可能导致农田损失。为了获得粮食安全，农民将不得不变得更具创新性。但是，发展中国家的许多农民采用技术创新的缓慢，从改善玉米品种到信息技术的使用。我们的在线讨论探讨了这样做的可能原因。

The debate was organised alongside theCornell Alliance for Science, a global initiative for science-based agricultural communications. Accompanying the debate was alsoan introductory piece由联盟的董事莎拉·戴维森·埃文加（Sarah Davidson Evanega）与农民互动以增加农业创新的吸收的重要性。

• 辩论问题：

• What barriers are preventing new technologies from reaching local farmers?

• 如何改善有关新技术的信息的传播？

• Can farmers access training in the use of new technologies? What more can be done to ensure that training reaches farmers in remote areas?

• Why is there a reluctance to accept new farming methods?

• 技术如何能更好的设计来满足吗needs of smallholder farmers in the global South? Do innovations tend to be designed instead for the interests of large-scale agribusiness in the North?

• How can farmers get more involved in the design and adaptation of tech, drawing on their own experience and expertise?

• 是否有一些创新（例如新种子品种）会使农民依赖这些新产品的所有者存在危险？

The debate drew on the experience and expertise of academics and SciDev.Net staff from around the world and took place in the comment section below.Please log in below and add your comments and questions on the thread.

我们还通过Twitter进行了交叉问题（@scidevnet) using＃Tech4ag.

6月10日，在线辩论之前，在脱机辩论（也由Scidev.net和Cornell Science联盟共同组织）之前，研究了记者在促进农民技术选择中的作用.这将在世界科学记者会议在韩国首尔。

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Panel

Julien Chongwang是我们撒哈拉以南非洲（法语）版的助理编辑。加入之前scidev.net, he was the editor in chief ofLe quotidien de l'cranceie, a daily newspaper in Douala, Cameroon.

丹尼尔·富塞卡（Daniel Fonceka）是法国研究中心农业发展研究中心（CIRAD）和塞内加尔改善干旱适应（CARASS）地区研究中心的研究人员和科学协调员。

Ndjido Ardo Kaneis a geneticist and plant molecular biologist at the Senegalese Institute for Agricultural Research.

Julio Maia是巴西圣保罗州立大学的研究员。他目前参与了一个生产转基因，耐旱大豆的项目。

James Somi是坦桑尼亚阿鲁沙附近的Ngare Nanyuki中学的校长。他还是一个为家人和学校种植蔬菜的生存农民。索米（Somi）来自一个农民家庭。

Eugene Paul Kavisheis an agriculture entrepreneur from Tanzania. He is the founder and Managing Director of Vonkavy Agro Company Ltd, a poultry farm producing over 3000 eggs a day in the Morogoro region of Tanzania.

Lughano Kusilukais deputy vice chancellor for academic research and innovation at the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology in Arusha, Tanzania. He has written widely on livestock issues and veterinary disease in East Africa.

路易莎米assarani位于巴西，协调Scidev.net的拉丁美洲和加勒比版。

Nick Ishmael Perkinsis SciDev.Net’s director. He has worked as a journalist, media trainer and project manager for many years in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and the Caribbean.

Moderator

琼·康罗（Joan Conrow）is an independent journalist whose work has appeared in奥杜邦,国家野生动植物以及许多国家和地区出版物。She writes frequently about agriculture, biotechnology, nature, politics and human foibles.
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