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2. COVID-19 and the Sustainability of Agricultural Extension Models
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Siankwilimba, E. (author), Hiddlestone-Mumford, J. (author), Hang’ombe Mudenda, B.M. (author), Mumba, C. (author), and Hoque, Md. E (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-01-05
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Visnav
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 204 Document Number: D12485
- Journal Title:
- International Journal of Applied Chemical and Biological Sciences
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 3 (1)
- Notes:
- 20 pages., Agricultural extension and advisory services in information and technology dissemination and delivery are critical in a developing country’s food security and sustainability. Without extension service provision, the productivity and production smallholder farmers are experiencing would have been much lower, and current global hunger and malnutrition worse. This paper assesses the effects of COVID-19 on the sustainability of agricultural extension models/approaches for smallholder farmers in developing countries. Over 60 papers were reviewed covering 2019-2021, commencing with the disease outbreak in China. Based on characteristics and usage, the findings indicate most reviewed extension models were disrupted. No single model was entirely disbanded as the impact of COVID-19 was being felt. However, each model incorporated a digital means of communication to keep farmers and service providers in touch. There is considerable criticism around the inadequacy of these extension techniques in advancing the agenda for smallholder farming’s long-term viability that needs to be addressed
3. Reconsideration of the agriculture transfer model
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Feller, Irwin (author / Director, Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation, Pennsylvania State University.)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1984
- Published:
- USA: Indianapolis, IN : Technology Transfer Society.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06848
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Technology Transfer
- Journal Title Details:
- 8 (2) : 47-56
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 92034694, The cooperative extension system in American agriculture is widely viewed as the paradigmatic public sector technology transfer system. Empirical evidence supports the view that research and extension are complementary inputs in increasing agricultural productivity. Cooperative extension, however, does not perceive itself as a technology transfer system; but as an informal education system. Many participants at the federal, land grant university, or county levels in cooperative extension would not recognize their work within a technology transfer framework. Moreover, many would object to such a characterization of their work. The differences in perspective is accounted for, in part, by the fact that agricultural extension is part of the larger system of cooperative extension. This system, which encompasses agriculture, home economics, 4-H and community and rural development, requires a more encompassing framework than technology transfer to provide an integrated rationale for its program elements. Within the technology transfer framework, the roles of the different components of the system across the states are both highly variable and changing. Based on site interviews in nine states, analysis is presented of the current and prospective roles of extension specialists and county agents. (original)
4. Role theory, fusion process theory and a rating scale as used in an extension research study in West Pakistan
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Qamar, Muhammad Kalim (author / Agricultural Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon) and Agricultural Sciences, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1973-07
- Published:
- Pakistan
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05354
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Rural Development and Administration
- Journal Title Details:
- 10 (3) : 1-7
- Notes:
- search through journal
5. The functions, focus, and productivity of the State Agricultural Experiment Stations in the United States
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Araji, A.A. (author / Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Idaho)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1990-11
- Published:
- USA: New York : John Wiley & Sons
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 89 Document Number: C06223
- Journal Title:
- Agribusiness
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 (6) : 633-642
6. Toward an optimal rate of growth in agricultural production research and extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Knutson, Marlys (author), Tweeten, Luther G. (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1979-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05127
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 61 : 70-76
- Notes:
- Phase 2. Evans, cited reference