?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_id=Innovation+platforms+practice+brief+4&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Foar.icrisat.org%2F7332%2F&rft.title=Power+dynamics+and+representation+in+innovation+platforms&rft.creator=Cullen%2C+B&rft.creator=Tucker%2C+J&rft.creator=Homann-Kee+Tui%2C+S&rft.subject=Agriculture-Farming%2C+Production%2C+Technology%2C+Economics&rft.description=The+farmers+in+Gebugesa+village+spent+the+whole+day+planting+elephant+grass+seedlings+on+several+hectares+of+grazing+land.+The+next+day%2C+they+came+back+and+uprooted+all+the+seedlings.+Why%3F%0D%0AThey+had+been+told+to+plant+the+seedlings+by+government+extension+agents+who+were+members+of+an+innovation+platform+in+Ethiopia.+Other+members+of+the+platform%E2%80%94officials+from+the+Bureau+of+Agriculture%E2%80%94had+to+meet+national+government+targets+for+soil+and+water+conservation%2C+so+pressured+the+platform+to+mobilize+farmers+to+plant+the+grass+and+enclose+the+area.+The+farmers+agreed+to+plant+the+grass%2C+but+were+afraid+that+the+fencing+would+stop+them+grazing+their+animals+and+that+poorer+people+would+not+be+able+to+collect+dung+for+fuel.&rft.publisher=International+Crops+Research+Institute+for+the+Semi-Arid+Tropics&rft.date=2013&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Foar.icrisat.org%2F7332%2F1%2FPowerDynamics_2013.pdf&rft.identifier=++Cullen%2C+B+and+Tucker%2C+J+and+Homann-Kee+Tui%2C+S++(2013)+Power+dynamics+and+representation+in+innovation+platforms.++Documentation.+International+Crops+Research+Institute+for+the+Semi-Arid+Tropics%2C+Patancheru%2C+Andhra+Pradesh%2C+India.+++++&rft.relation=Innovation+platforms+practice+brief+4