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A Review of Innovation Systems Framework as a Tool for Gendering Agricultural Innovations: Exploring Gender Learning and System Empowerment
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Kingiri, Ann N. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2013
Purpose: To reflect on the opportunities that a systems understanding of innovation provides for addressing gender issues relevant to women, and to provide some insight on how these might be tackled. Approach: Review of literature relating to gender issues and how they relate to achieving, on the one hand, equity and efficiency goals, and on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Systems Approach, Innovation, Agriculture
New Challenges in Agricultural Advisory Services from a Research Perspective: A Literature Review, Synthesis and Research Agenda
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Faure, Guy; Desjeux, Yann; Gasselin, Pierre – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: Agricultural advisory services are perceived by many actors involved in rural development as a key driver behind innovation processes in agriculture. However, changes in national and global contexts cause dramatic changes in the orientation of advisory services, their organisation and their methods of intervention. This article aims to…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Institutional Environment, Rural Development, Rural Extension
An Appraisal of the Contribution of Rural Sociological and Agricultural Extension Research to the Transfer of Technology to Small Scale Farmers in Nigeria.
Monu, Erasmus D. – 1980
A review of the information provided by rural sociologists and agricultural extensionists regarding the adoption of new and/or improved farm practices in Nigeria in order to determine their contribution to the transfer of technology to farmers indicates that a great deal of attention had been paid to communication variables and to personal and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Developing Nations, Extension Agents, Farmers