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This article is based on my personal experience and understanding of conducting research interviews with farmers. It incorporates ethnographic fiction -an approach to writing that is based on first-hand accounts- to examine some of the issues that researchers might think about before interviewing farmers. Research interviews with farmers are unique events because farmers are a sub-cultural group located in a particular landscape, which means that they have quite different experiences, behaviors, and motivations to academic researchers. It is hard to build an understanding of conducting research interviews with farmers other than by doing them. The article focuses on what, for me, were the eight most important issues around interviewing farmers that I had to grapple with. Discussing these issues may add to potential interviewers' understanding of some of the issues with farmer interviews and result in improved interaction and co-operation with them. (author's abstract)

Graphic-elicitation appears to be a research method that potentially has much to offer, particularly so when working with distressed and disaffected groups. It can be especially suited to presenting contentious ideas with unwelcome implications to sceptical interviewees, in this case irrigation farmers who were questioning aspects of climate change. Five images were introduced in the course of conducting in-depth personal interviews. The interviews were recorded and analysed for recurrent themes related to the images. The graphic-elicitation method allowed some participants to preserve or build their sense of optimism by viewing the graphic-elicitation images in particular ways—they saw in them what they wanted to see. Encouraged by the images some attempted to transfer their felt responsibility toward climate change responses to the government and upstream irrigators by blaming them for their low water availability.URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs130321 ; La inducción gráfica parece ser un método de investigación que potencialmente tiene mucho qué ofrecer, en particular al trabajar con grupos de gente angustiada y afectada. Sobre todo puede ser útil en la presentación ideas debatibles con implicaciones inoportunas a entrevistados escépticos, en este caso, agricultores de riego a quienes se interrogó sobre aspectos del cambio climático. Se presentaron cinco imágenes en el curso de la conducción de entrevistas en profundidad. Se grabaron las entrevistas y se analizaron por temas recurrentes relacionados con las imágenes. El método de inducción gráfica permitió a algunos participantes conservar o construir su sentido de optimismo al mirar las imágenes de inducción gráfica de modos muy particulares: vieron en ellas lo que ellos en realidad querían ver. Animados por las imágenes algunos intentaron transferir la responsabilidad que sentían con relación al cambio climático al gobierno y a los irrigadores de mayor consumo al culparlos por la baja disponibilidad de agua.URN: ...

Graphic-elicitation appears to be a research method that potentially has much to offer, particularly so when working with distressed and disaffected groups. It can be especially suited to presenting contentious ideas with unwelcome implications to sceptical interviewees, in this case irrigation farmers who were questioning aspects of climate change. Five images were introduced in the course of conducting in-depth personal interviews. The interviews were recorded and analysed for recurrent themes related to the images. The graphic-elicitation method allowed some participants to preserve or build their sense of optimism by viewing the graphic-elicitation images in particular ways - they saw in them what they wanted to see. Encouraged by the images some attempted to transfer their felt responsibility toward climate change responses to the government and upstream irrigators by blaming them for their low water availability.

Smallholder ADOPT is designed to provide an understanding of the technology adoption process, as part of the wider processes of agricultural innovation. This publication documents the development of Smallholder ADOPT, which started with a review of literature that gathered significant data on the factors influencing adoption in developing country settings. The development process was then progressed through a survey with users of the pilot version of Smallholder ADOPT, followed by workshops held in Ethiopia, Laos, India and Papua New Guinea