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Farm Advisors Play a Key Role in Integrating Crop-Livestock at the Farm Level: Perceptions and Experiences in Brazil and France
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Fernanda Gomes Moojen; Myriam Grillot; Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho; Julie Ryschawy – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2024
Purpose: Integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS) can foster agroecological transitions. However, knowledge on how extension services influence such systems is still lacking. The manuscript analyzes ICLS advisors' perceptions of the conditions toward recoupling crops and livestock at the farm level. Methodology/Approach: We conducted and analyzed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Agents, Agricultural Education, Rural Extension
Multiple Knowledges for Agricultural Production: Implications for the Development of Conservation Agriculture in Kenya and Uganda
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Moore, Keith M.; Lamb, Jennifer N.; Sikuku, Dominic Ngosia; Ashilenje, Dennis S.; Laker-Ojok, Rita; Norton, Jay – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2014
Purpose: This article investigates the extent of multiple knowledges among smallholders and connected non-farm agents around Mount Elgon in Kenya and Uganda in order to build the communicative competence needed to scale up conservation agriculture production systems (CAPS). Design/methodology/approach: Our methodological approach examines local…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agriculture, Conservation (Environment), Agricultural Occupations
Transforming the Roles of a Public Extension Agency to Strengthen Innovation: Lessons from the National Agricultural Extension Project in Bangladesh
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Chowdhury, Ataharul Huq; Odame, Helen Hambly; Leeuwis, Cees – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2014
Purpose: The rapidly evolving nature of agricultural innovation processes in low-income countries requires agricultural extension agencies to transform the classical roles that previously supported linear information dissemination and adoption of innovation. In Bangladesh, strengthening agricultural innovation calls for facilitation of interactive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Agencies, Extension Agents, Rural Extension
"Windowsill Gardens" Open the Door to 4-H
Kirkpatrick, Ed – Extension Service Review, 1973
Indiana's Cooperative Extension 4-H program has initiated a windowsill garden project for children in both urban and rural areas. (GB)
Descriptors: Agronomy, Extension Agents, Extension Education, Gardening
Effect of the Relationship between Agricultural Extension Agents and Wheat Farmers in Medina Region, Saudi Arabia, on the Adoption of Appropriate Wheat Production Practices. A Summary Report of Research. Department Information Bulletin 91-3.
Bakri, Mohammad Saleh – 1991
The relationship between agricultural extension agents and wheat farmers in the Medina region, Saudi Arabia, was analyzed, based on each group's perception of the relationship. Participants were 73 randomly selected wheat farmers and 31 of 34 agricultural extension agents working in the region during spring 1990. Farmers were interviewed, and…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Education, Agronomy