Affordances and agricultural technology

This paper discusses how the theory of affordances can be used to investigate a spectrum opportunities, benefits, costs and risks is generated unevenly distributed by different kinds technology (where ‘technology’ understood as techniques, processes practices doing making, rather than technical artefacts systems). Affordances are possibilities for action, which arise from relations between humans entities that surround them. three affordances: material, cultural socio-economic. The offers coherent way explain why technologies have implications, those implications vary stakeholders. Applied domain development-oriented agricultural research innovation, could researchers practitioners examine differentiated farming alternative programmes technological change in agriculture, both ex ante (e.g. their design, development implementation) post evaluation). To illustrate argument, uses example weeding System Rice Intensification. Since relationally situationally each person, full array arising introduction new wide diverse. A practical challenge, therefore, whether practically operationally implement evaluate appropriateness, accessibility, utility value specific people groups interest.