Doing Development One Chicken at a Time

As most of us involved in community development know, often a good idea originates with the people we are trying the help. In fact, one of the keys to success and sustainability in many development projects rests in our ability to accomplish our goals or deliverables within a methodology that is sufficiently flexible to incorporate new ideas into an already carefully defined set of goals. This basic truism of research in community development is illustrated here with an example of a livelihood project seemingly unrelated to the overall goals of an agroforestry development project—Good Roots-ugat ng buhay—that I have directed in the Philippines for the past fifteen years (see The Changing Village Life in Southeast Asia: Applied anthropology and environment in the Northern Philippines, 2005, New York and London: RoutledgeCuzon)

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