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Analysis of the Impact of the Regional Innovation System of Protected Agriculture in Hidalgo, Mexico
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Vargas-Canales, Juan Manuel; Palacios-Rangel, María Isabel; García-Cruz, Juan Carlos; Camacho-Vera, Joaquín Huitzilihuitl; Sánchez-Torres, Yolanda; Simón-Calderón, César – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2023
Purpose: The aim of the research was to analyze the impact of the regional innovation system on the efficiency and productivity enterprises dedicated to protected agriculture in Hidalgo, Mexico. Methodology: The regional innovation system was analyzed by identifying the innovation networks. Subsequently, a typology of enterprises was generated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geographic Regions, Agricultural Education, Innovation
Facilitating Learning for Innovation in a Climate-Stressed Context: Insights from Flash Flood-Affected Rice Farming in Bangladesh
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Kamruzzaman, Md; Anne Daniell, Katherine; Chowdhury, Ataharul; Crimp, Steven – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2023
Purpose: Facilitation of learning enhances innovation through overcoming innovation barriers and supporting learning outcomes. However, little is known about how public Extension and Advisory Services (EAS) facilitate learning to help adapt to particular climate stressors. This article investigates the role of public EAS in facilitating learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Occupations, Extension Education, Adjustment (to Environment)
Structural Conditions for Collaboration and Learning in Innovation Networks: Using an Innovation System Performance Lens to Analyse Agricultural Knowledge Systems
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Hermans, Frans; Klerkx, Laurens; Roep, Dirk – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2015
Purpose: We investigate how the structural conditions of eight different European agricultural innovation systems can facilitate or hinder collaboration and social learning in multidisciplinary innovation networks. Methodology: We have adapted the Innovation System Failure Matrix to investigate the main barriers and enablers eight countries…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Rural Extension, Extension Education
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
Public Sector Agricultural Extension System Reform and the Challenges Ahead
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Rivera, William M. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2011
This paper is organized into two main sections. The first section examines extension as an engine for innovation and reviews the numerous priorities confronting extension systems. Section two highlights the current knowledge imperative and the critical connection of extension to post-secondary higher education and training, organizational…
Descriptors: Inservice Education, Rural Extension, Public Sector, Change Strategies
Information and Communication for Rural Innovation and Development: Context, Quality and Priorities in Southeast Uganda
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Sseguya, Haroon; Mazur, Robert; Abbott, Eric; Matsiko, Frank – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: To examine the status and priorities for agricultural information generation, dissemination and utilization in the context of agricultural innovation systems in southeast Uganda. Design/Methodology/Approach: Group discussions were conducted with six communities in Kamuli district, southeast Uganda. The focus was on information sources and…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Information Sources, Rural Development, Innovation
Agricultural Extension, Collective Action and Innovation Systems: Lessons on Network Brokering from Peru and Mexico
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Hellin, Jon – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: New approaches to extension service delivery are needed that stimulate increased agricultural production, contribute to collective action and which also foster the emergence of agricultural innovation systems. Research in Peru and Mexico explores some of these new approaches. Design/methodology/approach: In both countries, a qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Rural Extension, Agricultural Production
A Study of the Relative Importance of Communication and Economic Variables in Diffusion: Dwarf Wheats on Unirrigated Small Holdings in Pakistan.
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Rochin, Refugio I. – 1972
The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) it presents some empirical findings of the relative importance of both "economic" and "communication" variables in the diffusion of an innovation (dwarf wheats) in an unirrigated region of Pakistan which is densely populated by smallholders. The sample of farmers reported are…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Bibliographies, Communication (Thought Transfer), Economic Factors