Cartmell, D. Dwayne II (author / Oklahoma State University), Naile, Traci L. (author / Oklahoma State University), and Riley, Kendra (author / Oklahoma State University)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
2009-02
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 177 Document Number: C30401
Notes:
Paper presented in the Agricultural Communications Section, annual meeting of the Southern Association of Agricultural Scientists, Atlanta, Georgia, January 31-February 3, 2009.
9 pages., Through in-depth interviews with farmers having an existing relationship with extension advisors, researchers explored the processes of of advisory relationship building, maintenance, and the nature of commitment to an advisor. Findings identified six guidelines associated with increasing commitment to an advisory relationship.
Pages 53-54 in Review of Extension Research, January through December 1957. Information Sheet 540, Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, Mississippi State University, State College. 1956.
Brown, Thomas G. (author), Collins, Arthur J. (author), and Brown: Extension Economist and Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; Collins: Extension Assistant, Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
Format:
Report
Publication Date:
1978-09
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 14 Document Number: B01758
Notes:
#361, Harold Swanson Collection; James F. Evans Collection, Columbia, MO : Cooperative Extension Service, University of Missouri, 1978. 105 p. (A Report of the National Extension Study Committee)
Abstract via online journal. 2 pages., Technological innovation is vital to economic growth and food security in sub-Saharan Africa where agricultural productivity has been stagnant for a long time. Extension services and learning from peer farmers are two common approaches to facilitate the diffusion of new technologies, but little is known about their relative effectiveness. Selection bias, whereby well-motivated training participants would perform better even without extension services, as well as knowledge spillovers, where non-participants can indirectly benefit from extension services, are among the major threats to causal inference. Using a unique sequential randomized experiment on agricultural training, this study attempts to meet the dual objectives of executing rigorous impact evaluation of extension services and subsequent spillovers on rice production in Cote d’Ivoire. Specifically, to reduce selection bias, we randomly assigned eligibility for training participation; and to satisfy the stable unit treatment value assumption, control-group farmers were initially restricted from exchanging information with treated-group farmers who had received rice management training. Once some positive impacts were confirmed, information exchange between the treated and control farmers was encouraged. We found that the initial performance gaps created by the randomized assignment disappeared over time, due presumably to social learning from peer farmers. A detailed analysis concerning the information network and peer effects provided suggestive evidence that there were information and technology spillovers from treated to control farmers after removing the information exchange restriction. Overall, our study demonstrates that information dissemination by farmers can be as effective in improving practices as the initial training provided by extension services.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D02435
Notes:
Page 60 - Abstract of a paper presented at the International Conference of the Australasia Pacific Extension Network (APEN), Lincoln University, Christchurch, New Zealand, August 26-28, 2013. 100 pages., Regarding outbreak of Pseudomonas syringae actinidae in the international kiwi fruit industry.
