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Public Sector Agricultural Extension System Reform and the Challenges Ahead.
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In this paper, the authors present the current knowledge imperative and the critical connection of extension to post-secondary higher education and training, organizational inservice training, and vocationally oriented self-directed learning.Abstract:
This paper is organized into two main sections. The first section examines extension as an engine for innovation and reviews the numerous priorities confronting extension systems. Section two highlights the current knowledge imperative and the critical connection of extension to post-secondary higher education and training, organizational inservice training, and vocationally oriented self-directed learning. Final comments address ‘The Continuing Role of the Public Sector’, and the prospect of its role in balancing societal interests and promoting extension as an aspect of a knowledge economy. The conclusion proposes what may be agricultural extension's challenges ahead.read more
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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of social network factors on information acquisition and adoption of new seed varieties among groundnut farmers in Uganda and Kenya were examined through face-to-face interviews from a random sample of 461 farmers.
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Effects of social network factors on information acquisition and adoption of improved groundnut varieties: the case of Uganda and Kenya
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Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education
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Communication for Rural Innovation: Rethinking Agricultural Extension
TL;DR: The role of Communicative intervention in policy planning: Instrumental and Interactive Approaches is discussed in this article, where the authors define innovation as a process of network building and negotiation within Interactive Processes.
Enhancing agricultural innovation : how to go beyond the strengthening of research systems
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the concept of an innovation system to develop a framework for guiding diagnosis of innovation capacity and for planning interventions in the agricultural sector, which is used to identify activities in support of agricultural innovation.