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T1 Some Methodological Issues in the Measurement, Analysis and Evaluation of Peasant Farmers' Knowledge of their Environment : A Research Memorandum - MARC Report Number 9
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 Rockefeller Foundation, 
A1 Monitoring and Assessment Research Centre, 
A2 Barker, David
K1 environmental education
K1 farmer
K1 environmental management
K1 agricultural ecology
YR 1977
FD 1977
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/28012
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/28012
NO This paper examines some of the problems involved in measuring and evaluating peasant farmers' knowledge of their environment and is an extension of the work of Barker. Oguntoyinbo and Richards (1977). That study presented a case for the utilization and inclusion of the perceptions of peasant farmers in the process of monitoring environmental change. Here, the problems of eliciting and evaluating this type of information in methodologically sound ways are discussed, drawing on earlier work in both ethnoscientific Third World studies and conventional behavioural research.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026