ABSTRACT
Taking into account the market economy and marginalisation process in rural China, enhancing innovative capacity is vital for the rural poor to cope with various challenges to their livelihood security. Since government interventions and PRPs have suffered from location biases and inappropriate technology, the question is raised, whether and how the poor in the marginal areas can learn new technologies by themselves. From the perspective of innovation organisation, this general question can be further discomposed: by what kinds of information networks and organisational patterns do they learn and share new technologies? Are organisational patterns related to the variety of household innovative capacity (HIC)? What factors influence farmers’ innovative capacity and organisation pattern?
