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2. From teaching to learning : social systems research into mixed farming
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Blacket, David (author)
- Format:
- Monograph
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Australia: Department of Primary Industries, The State of Queensland
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 133 Document Number: C20255
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection, ISSN 0727-6281, Project Report Q096010
3. Improving the output of agricultural extension and research through participatory innovation development and extension; experiences from ZimbabweN
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Chuma, E. (author), Hagmann, J. (author), Murwira, K (author), and AGRITEX/GTZ Conservation Tillage Project, P.O. Box 790, Masvingo}AGRITEX/GTZ Conservation Tillage Project, P.O. Box 790, Masvingo}ITDG Chivi Food Security Project, P.O. Box 576, Chivi
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 103 Document Number: C08889
- Journal Title:
- European Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 2(4) : 15-24
- Notes:
- This paper describes the rationale for a change from conventional extension towards participatory innovation development and extension. The "Conservation Tillage Project" and the "Food Security Project" developed such an approach and have embarked on institutionalisation of this approach into the agricultural extension service in Masvingo Province in Zimbabwe. Dialogue with farmers, farmer experimentation and the strengthening ofself-organisational capacities of rural communities are the major elements to improve development and spreading of innovations, thus the efficiency of extension. The new approach requires a role change of agricultural extension workers from teacher to facilitator as well as appropriate methods and tools. Elements of "Training for Transformation" and Participatory Rural Appraisal(PRA) were tested and developed and were found to be effective tools. The strategy to institutionalise participatory extension is based on joining efforts and networking with other organisations, a campaign to familiarise institutional staff and a training and follow-up programme for staff in the framework of organisational development. The experiences show that the attitudinal change required to implement participatory approaches is highly depended on personalities. To have an impact on the change of attitudes a continuous medium-term training process with a close follow-up is required. The paper concludes that institutionalisation of participatory approaches into hierarchically structured organisations is a highly complex intervention. In order to besuccessful, major changes in planning, implementation and monitoring and evaluation procedures are required. Changes of that nature require a process of at least 5 to 10 years and high commitment on the side of institutional staff on all levels and donors as well.
4. The indigenous farmer and the scientific researcher: issues in participatory research in Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Awa, Njoku E. (author)
- Format:
- Book chapter
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- International
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17055
- Notes:
- Pages 127-149 in Jan Servaes, Thomas L. Jacobson and Shirley A White (eds.), Participatory communication for social change. Sage Publications, New Delhi. 286 pages.
5. Towards an interactive agricultural science
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- N. R”ling (author / Department of Communication and Innovation Studies, Wageningen Agricultural University) and Department of Communication and Innovation Studies, Wageningen Agricultural University
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 103 Document Number: C08888
- Journal Title:
- European Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 2(4) : 35-48
- Notes:
- In all, a constructivist epistemology leads to a completely different approach that includes the conventional one, but ultimately leads to very different choices. I call this approach "interactive agricultural science". Box 2 sums up its main features. Interactive agricultural science is internally consistent. Just as the conventional paradigm, it embraces a whole range of mutually related elements at various levels of abstraction, from epistemology to the practical points of departure for rewarding desired scientific work and for training students. The challenge to agricultural science is together to further construct and operationalise this paradigm. That, as I hope to have made clear, is a condition for achieving our new mission: to contribute to a change in direction which saves us from becoming Norsemen in Greenland.