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PARTICIPATORY IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF RICE PARBOILING VIDEOS WITH WOMEN IN BENIN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2012

ESPÉRANCE ZOSSOU ,
PAUL VAN MELE ,
JONAS WANVOEKE  and
PHILIPPE LEBAILLY
ESPÉRANCE ZOSSOU*
Affiliation:
Gembloux Agro-Bio-Tech, Liège University, Wallonia, Belgium Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), 01 B.P. 2031, Cotonou, Benin
PAUL VAN MELE
Affiliation:
Previously with Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), 01 B.P. 2031, Cotonou, Benin
JONAS WANVOEKE
Affiliation:
Previously with Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice), 01 B.P. 2031, Cotonou, Benin
PHILIPPE LEBAILLY
Affiliation:
Gembloux Agro-Bio-Tech, Liège University, Wallonia, Belgium
*
§Corresponding Author: Email: benezos@yahoo.fr
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Summary

Using the sustainable livelihoods framework to evaluate the impact of a farmer-to-farmer video on the improved rice parboiling technology, women in Benin rated financial, social, human, natural and physical capital stocks for the baseline year (2006) and the impact year (2009) on a 0–5 scale. Women who had watched the video and those who had not, but who lived in the same villages, perceived a significant improvement in four out of five livelihood capitals while processors in control villages did not perceive any significant change. Apart from testing the sustainable livelihoods conceptual framework as a participatory impact assessment tool for video-mediated rural learning, this study shows how farmer-to-farmer training videos helped to improve multiple livelihood assets.

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Research Article
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Experimental Agriculture , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , July 2012 , pp. 438 - 447
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

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