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"A Gentleman's Handshake": The Role of Social Capital and Trust in Transforming Information into Usable Knowledge.
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The role of various social ties in building trust and providing opportunities for information acquisition and knowledge exchange (IAKE) was explored in this paper, where social capital was used as a vehicle to explore the relationships between farmers and their advisors using bovine tuberculosis (bTB), a major disease facing the English cattle industry.About:
This article is published in Journal of Rural Studies.The article was published on 2013-07-01. It has received 157 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Individual capital & Social capital.read more
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Combinations of bonding, bridging, and linking social capital for farm innovation: How farmers configure different support networks
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how different types of social capital (bonding, bridging, and linking) are used to achieve what has been called ambidexterity.
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Digitalisation of agricultural knowledge and advice networks: A state-of-the-art review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review trends within agricultural knowledge and advice networks both internationally and in Australia, to anticipate and prepare for potential transformations in these networks and come to three key conclusions regarding the state-of-the-art.
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Embeddedness, social capital and learning in rural areas: The case of producer cooperatives
Angela Tregear,Sarah Cooper +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a case analysis of a producer cooperative in the Scottish shellfish sector was carried out to explore a broader interpretation of the concepts of embeddedness and social capital through case analysis, which revealed the realities of member and management relations, along with the types of knowledge generated and the processes by which these are shared between actors.
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Understanding the role of social capital in adoption decisions: an application to irrigation technology.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of social capital on the adoption of irrigation technology and irrigation scheduling among wine producers in Central Chile and proposed three hypotheses: that trust and networks affect positively the adoption and that trust is positively related to networks.
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Local food hubs for alternative food systems: A case study from Santa Barbara County, California
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the creation of a successful local food hub in Santa Barbara County, California, USA, includes the perspectives of key food service staff in a large institutional buyer (The University of California, Santa Barbara's Residential Dining Services) that played a key role in the growth of the hub, the owners of the local hub, and some of the small-scale farmers the hub purchased from.
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The Strength of Weak Ties
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Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
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Foundations of Social Theory
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Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
TL;DR: Putnam et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, revealing patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.