Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16750
Notes:
Chapter 8 in Sohail Inayatullah and Susan Leggett, Transforming communication: technology, sustainability, and future generations. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 200 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C16749
Notes:
Chapter 7 in Sohail Inayatullah and Susan Leggett, Transforming communication: technology, sustainability, and future generations. Praeger, Westport, Connecticut. 200 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37033
Notes:
Pages 37-49 in Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson (eds.), The virtues of ignorance: complexity, sustainability and the limits of knowledge. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington. 354 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37032
Notes:
Pages 21-36 in Bill Vitek and Wes Jackson (eds.), The virtues of ignorance: complexity, sustainability and the limits of knowledge. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington. 354 pages.
17 pages, The creation of commercialization opportunities for smallholder farmers has taken primacy on the development agenda of many developing countries. Invariably, most of the smallholders are less productive than commercial farmers and continue to lag in commercialization. Apart from the various multifaceted challenges which smallholder farmers face, limited access to extension services stands as the underlying constraint to their sustainability. Across Africa and Asia, public extension is envisioned as a fundamental part of the process of transforming smallholder farmers because it is their major source of agricultural information. Extension continues to be deployed using different approaches which are evolving. For many decades, various authors have reported the importance of the approaches that effectively revitalize extension systems and have attempted to fit them into various typologies. However, there is a widespread concern over the inefficiency of these extension approaches in driving the sustainability of smallholder farming agenda. Further, most of the approaches that attempted to revolutionize extension have been developed and brought into the field in rapid succession, but with little or no impact at the farmer level. This paper explores the theory and application of agricultural extension approaches and argues the potential of transforming them using digital technologies. The adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones and the internet which are envisaged to revolutionize existing extension systems and contribute towards the sustainability of smallholder farming systems is recommended
Janssen, Sander (author), Porter, Cheryl H. (author), Moore, Andrew D. (author), Athanasiadis, Ioannis N. (author), Foster, Ian (author), Jones, James W. (author), and Antle, John M. (author)
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
2016-11-10
Published:
International: Elsevier
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: D07790
