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Today the last thread of the Twitter marathon on the occasion of our @PNASNews article "Crop variety management for climate adaptation supported by #citizenscience". What about the farmer perspective? What motivates farmers to do this? doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1… 
The idea of the #citizenscience methodology behind our paper is that farmers can actively participate in experimentation. Tricot or triadic comparisons of technologies makes participation feasible for several reasons.
Testing only three varieties requires little land. Many previous formats required that at least some of the farmers would grow all the varieties in a common plot. Due to its size, finding a farmer who could provide land was generally difficult and had to be arranged with time.
