Peru: Organizing Council for International Agricultural Communicators, Winrock International, Morrilton, Arkansas.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10035
Notes:
This project file is maintained in records of the Agricultural Communications Program, ACES College, University of Illinois > "International" section > "Peru - Agrarian University La Molina" file., Project file, Office of Agricultural Communications, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana., This file contains correspondence and proposals involving plans for developing academic programming and communication services at the National Agrarian University in Peru. Reflects collaborative efforts of the International Communication Development Council of the Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA) during 1968-1970.
18 pages, This study examines the application of a self-reliance framework for practitioners and evaluators to better understand the capacities and intrinsic factors impacting smallholder coffee farmers’ commercialization behaviors. We surveyed 40 smallholder coffee producers in Peru using a quantitative instrument. Data were analyzed to determine if statistical relationships exist between farmers’ self-reliance (measured via knowledge and skills, attitudes, and aspirations) and their commercialization behaviors. Findings indicate the self-reliance framework effectively illustrates relationships between farmers’ aspirations, knowledge and skills and their commercialization behaviors, while future, additional studies are needed to better measure and understand the role of commercialization-related attitudes. Practitioners can leverage the study’s findings by using a self-reliance framework to infer farmers’ likeliness to pursue sustainable commercialization practices and align their trainings and design interventions based on evaluation findings. The conceptual self-reliance framework is the first of its kind applied for smallholder coffee commercialization. The findings demonstrate that self-reliance concepts employed recently in other contexts may potentially be used similarly by extension and development facilitators.
Heald, Gary (author), Klees, Steven (author), Mayo, John (author), and Heald: College of Communications, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida; Klees: College of Education, Florida State University; Mayo: Director, Center of International Studies, Florida State University
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1987
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 79 Document Number: C04524
