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Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals through participatory research: long-term impacts of farmer participation on sustainable land use and livelihoods in Honduras

Agriculture & Food Security
Background This study describes a long-term farmer innovation project (local farmer research committees (Spanish acronym: CIALs)) in a remote hillside region of Honduras that has succeeded in intensifying land use under annual food crops towards ...
Marvin Gómez, Sally Humphries, Sebastian Kindsvater, José Jiménez, Paola Orellana, Sara Wyngaarden, Warren Dodd   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

La colaboración como condición: la etnografía participativa como oportunidad para la acción

Revista de Dialectología y Tradiciones Populares, 2016
Partiendo de varias experiencias de investigaciones colaborativas llevadas a cabo en Sevilla entre activistas e investigadores, este artículo presenta contextos activistas en los que la colaboración es planteada como una condición sine qua non para ...
Luis Berraquero-Díaz, Francisco Maya-Rodríguez, Francisco Javier Escalera Reyes   +2 more
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The Bumps in the Road Toward Social Equity Budgeting: The Administrative Pitfalls When Implementing Participatory Budgeting

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Participatory budgeting can encourage meaningful community engagement in all phases of the budgeting cycle to promote social equity. However, participatory budgeting administrators often experience administrative and political challenges in establishing participatory processes that effectively promote social equity.
Michelle L. Lofton, Juan Pablo Martínez Guzmán   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Democratic Values in Citizen Participation: What Citizens Prioritize in Participation

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Citizen participation is often initiated to strengthen democracy. While participatory innovations are typically assessed through normative frameworks emphasizing democratic values, little is known about which of these values are prioritized by citizens.
Take Sipma, Frank Hendriks
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Open‐Source LLMs for Automated Analysis of Multilingual Consultation Feedback: A Swiss Case Study

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Public consultations are a cornerstone of democratic policymaking, yet the sheer volume and heterogeneity of submissions often overwhelm traditional analysis. Emerging large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for making sense of such data, but their performance in contexts with high linguistic and technical diversity remains ...
Edgar Mathevet, Lauriane Cailleux
wiley   +1 more source

Insights for conservation from the Ecological Knowledge Games project

Conservation Biology, Volume 40, Issue 5, October 2026.
Abstract Environmental conservation research requires robust methods for collecting large‐scale behavioral data and engaging diverse stakeholders in decision‐making processes. We (Y.P., A.B.D., and N.B.) created EcoKnowGames (Ecological Knowledge Games), a transdisciplinary project that develops knowledge games for conservation science and data ...
Yuan Pan, A. Bradley Duthie, Isabel Jones, Daksha Patel, Nils Bunnefeld   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Como conocer la realidad para transformarla por la praxis: una aproximación a la construcción del conocimiento popular

Trayectorias Humanas Trascontinentales, 2018
En este artículo pretendo contrastar la forma “común” de llevar a cabo investigaciones sociales, con la investigación acción participativa como una forma no hegemónica de construcción del conocimiento popular.
Jesús Antonio Reyes Benavides
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Digital Futures Between Participatory Digital Democracy and Participatory Digital Fascism

Policy &Internet, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper explores one of the defining political questions of the twenty‐first century: will digital technologies strengthen democracy or accelerate new forms of authoritarianism and fascism? Against the backdrop of platform capitalism, AI‐driven communication, surveillance infrastructures, disinformation and democratic crisis, the study asks
Christian Fuchs, Kevin Friesch, Joel Museba   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does public participation foster stakeholder support for policy proposals? Evidence from the European Union

Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
Abstract We examine whether and how public participation in policymaking contributes towards fostering stakeholder support for policy proposals formulated in the bureaucratic arena. We explain how key markers of procedural fairness describing both the participation process and policymakers' presentations of it during the decision justification stage co‐
Adriana Bunea, Idunn Nørbech
wiley   +1 more source

Participatory fuzzy cognitive modelling reveals leverage points for agroecological adoption in the Central Valleys of Oaxaca

People and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 6, Page 1817-1831, June 2026.
Abstract Global institutions are increasingly calling for an agroecological transition of our food systems to promote sustainable farmer livelihoods, safeguard agrobiodiversity and foster socio‐ecological resilience to a changing climate. Yet adoption remains limited, and there is a paucity of research examining how local conditions enable and ...
Gabriela Marie Garcia, Quetzalcóatl Orozco‐Ramírez, Ximena de la Mora Bakjejian, Reyna Domínguez Yescas, Emilio Hernández Martínez, Patricia Balvanera   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source