Esta cartilha e resultado de um trabalho de pesquisa realizado por instituicoes e grupos de produtores rurais. Os elementos principais do seu delineamento foram escolhidos pelos proprios leitores potenciais: os agricultores. Os exemplos narrados sao reais e formam parte da experiencia dos Comites de Pesquisa Agricola Local que participaram do projeto desde seu inicio. Na elaboracao das cartilhas participaram os Comites de Pesquisa Agricola Local das comunidades Cinco Dias, El Diviso, Pescador, Sao Bosco, Sotara e Portachuelo de Cauca, Colombia.

Introduction; When to conduct farmer evaluations in agricultural research; The social dynamics of farmer evaluations in developing countries; Establishing a collegiate working relationship with farmers; Communication skills for conducting evaluations; Farmer selection; Setting up farmer evaluations; The evaluation interview; Group evaluations; Ten guidelines for effective evaluations of technology with farmers.

Acknowledgements; The objectives of farmer evaluations; The open-endedevaluation; Formuting questions for open-ended evaluation; Establishing neutrality and clarifyng expectations in farmer evaluations; Compiling information fron an open-ended evaluation; Planning farmer evaluations; Answers to exercises; Further reading.