De Zwart, Onno (author), Veldhuijzen, Irene K. (author), Elam, Gillian (author), Aro, Arja R. (author), Abraham, Thomas (author), Bishop, George D. (author), Richardus, Jan Hendrik (author), Brug, Johannes (author), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2007-02
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 155 Document Number: C25250
Campilan, Dindo (author), Roa, Julieta R. (author), and Gonsalves, Julian (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C29785
Notes:
Pages 97-101 in Ian Scoones and John Thompson (eds.), Farmer First revisited: innovation for agricultural research and development. Practical Action Publishing, Warwickshire, U.K. 357 pages., Describes a program, UPWARD (Users' Perspectives with Agricultural Research and Development ). Shifts emphasis from food systems to livelihood systems, from crop production to agricultural livelihoods and from farms to marketing chains.
International: Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo, Japan.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25331
Notes:
Report of an APO study meeting, February 25-March 6, 1992, in Tokyo, Japan. 259 pages., Includes four papers about agricultural and extension information systems in Japan. Also includes brief country reports from Bangladesh, Republic of China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Republic of Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand.
20 pages, via online journal, Purpose: This paper examines the factors affecting farmers’ participation in extension programs and adoption of improved seed varieties in the hills of rural Nepal.
Methodology/approach: Cross-sectional farm-level data were collected during July and August 2014. A sample of 198 farm households was selected for interviewing by using a multistage, random sampling technique. We employed a logistic regression model, frequency counts, and percentages to analyze the data.
Findings: Adoption decisions were mainly affected by extension-related variables – training, membership in a farmers’ group, and off-farm employment. Extension participation was found to be influenced by socioeconomic variables – age, education, household size, and distance to the extension office. Our findings reveal that distance to the extension office and off-farm employment limited participation in extension activities and adoption, respectively, and education, household size, and group membership stimulated participation in extension programs.
Practical implications: Recognition of the determinants of farmers’ participation in extension services and innovation adoption ensures that targeted extension approaches are used to address these factors in various stages of planning, delivering, and evaluating extension programs.
Theoretical implications: Innovation adoption follows a systematic decision-making process. Although personal characteristics are important, widespread use of new technology requires a conducive social and institutional context. Because contexts vary by country or region, extension services providers should create institutions favorable for innovation adoption within a social system.
Originality/value: This research is original and highly valuable to identify the factors associated with extension participation and innovation adoption in the rural hilly region of Nepal. This also provides a new direction to operationalize farmer-oriented policies of agricultural extension and so can be helpful for agricultural policy-makers in devising programs of extension services.
Pontius, John (author), Dilts, Russell (author), Bartlett, Andrew (author), and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
2002-07
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 147 Document Number: C23372
Notes:
From FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand., ACDC file contains title and content pages, plus sections about historical context of the farmer field schools and the big picture of opportunities for new dimensions of community IPM.
Asia: Agricultural Research and Extension Network, Overseas Development Institute
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: C20770
Notes:
Burton Swanson Collection, pages 1-4, Network Paper no. 59b from "Farmer-led approaches to extension : papers presented at a workshop in the Philippines, July 1995"
