David Gray

TL;DR: Thematic analysis reveals three general principles: farmers value knowledge delivered by persons rather than roles, privilege farming experience, and develop knowledge with empiricist rather than rationalist techniques that have significant implications for theorizing agricultural innovation.

TL;DR: In this paper, an 18-month pilot study brought together agricultural scientists and social scientists to investigate how farmers learn and effective ways to support their learning and to promote improved management practices of herb-mix pastures containing chicory, plantain and red and white clover.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the factors that support and hinder farmers' learning and investigate the impact of an innovative learning program on farmers' practice change in order to examine the influence of such learning programs on practice change.

TL;DR: In this paper, a semi-structured interview with both farmers and a range of advisors (bankers, accountants, farm management consultants, specialist financial advisors and industry funded advisors) was conducted to identify who farmers' FM advisors are and to shed light on how farmer-advisor interactions about FM are shaped.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors decompose the total variation of workers' earnings into permanent variation and a transitory component (or earnings instability), and find that there has been an increase in overall earnings variability among Canadian workers between the two sub-periods, with the increase much more marked among men, particularly with non-continuous labour market attachment.