| This dissertation is principally concerned with documenting the response of farmers to a technology transfer program in Casiguran, a rural community on the southern tip of the island of Luzon, Republic of the Philippines, and with explicating the failure of the project to produce any sustainable economic growth. Patterns of socio-cultural integration, particularly the construction of networks of "fictive kin", are examined. Household decision making, agricultural innovation, and ecological adaptation are documented. The failure of the project to foster economic growth is shown to have resulted from inattention by project planners to a number of socio-cultural issues, notably, structural constraints in the local economy and the role of women in agricultural production. Moreover, the way in which the project was implemented is shown to have exacerbated existing discrepancies in economic power, as well related political conflict, to which it was an intended solution. |
