Research on Innovations: Chronicles of a Volta Field Tour

From 24^th July through 2^nd August, Karen Greenough made a long tour through southern Burkina and northern Ghana as part of her ethnographic research on innovations resulting from VBDC activities.  She started on Tuesday with Fred Kizito and Lee Davelaar, who were gathering information for the Volta Scenarios and Storylines (VSS) project.  They spent the afternoon in Boura, first talking with two V3 team members, and then they interviewed M. Navé, the first vice-mayor of Boura commune, about climatic and agricultural changes that the area has seen over the past thirty years.  It was market day that day, and though the farmers had gathered for a brief meeting with the V3 team in the morning, they had to either return to their fields or to market business by the time Karen, Fred and Lee arrived. (…)

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