Boru DouthwaiteDr. Boru Douthwaite did his first degree in engineering design and appropriate technology at the University of Warwick in the UK before being employed by the Department for International Development (DfID). DfID sponsored his Masters in agricultural ngineering before placing him at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines, where he was subsequently employed. During the nine years he spent at IRRI he contributed, in particular, the main intellectual and design input into a project which developed and fostered the adoption of a small-farm stripper harvester aimed at meeting farmers' needs for appropriate labour-saving technology. During this period he became interested in technology adoption processes and enrolled for a PhD in the subject at the University of Reading in 1995. He now works for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Ibadan, Nigeria, as an adoption and impact specialist. Read More Read Less