4. Discussion
The feedback from the household interviews at the end of the project and 20 months later, combined with the results from monitoring of the on-farm trials indicate that the approach described in this paper has led to: (1) sustained adoption of the full range of best-bet technologies by the 30 participating households with an unambiguous intention to continue these practices into the future; (2) positive production, social and economic impacts; and (3) significant diffusion of the livestock improvement technologies to other households. This success is attributed to a range of techniques designed to promote adoption by smallholders, including the following: