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Social Network Analysis of Spreading and Exchanging Information on Twitter: The Case of an Agricultural Research and Education Centre in Mexico
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Aguilar-Gallegos, Norman; Klerkx, Laurens; Romero-García, Leticia Elizabeth; Martínez-González, Enrique Genaro; Aguilar-Ávila, Jorge – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to deepening insights on social media in agricultural research by presenting a case study on how a research and education centre in Mexico connected, communicated, and interacted in a research and education community on Twitter. Design/methodology/approach: By using a Social Network Analysis (SNA) approach,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Media, Computer Mediated Communication, Agriculture
Agricultural Extension, Collective Action and Innovation Systems: Lessons on Network Brokering from Peru and Mexico
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Hellin, Jon – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: New approaches to extension service delivery are needed that stimulate increased agricultural production, contribute to collective action and which also foster the emergence of agricultural innovation systems. Research in Peru and Mexico explores some of these new approaches. Design/methodology/approach: In both countries, a qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Rural Extension, Agricultural Production
Participatory Strategies, Facilitators and Community Development in Mexico
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Quintana, Roberto Diego – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2004
During the 80s and 90s in Mexico there was a boost in participatory strategies developed, in order to solve serious deficiencies in community development programmes and projects. The mere existence of such methodologies, "per se," does not guarantee the conscious and voluntary participation of rural inhabitants. The social energy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Rural Development, Participation
Local Development Agents' Training for Sustainable and Endogenous Development: A Participatory Development Project among Mayan Communities
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Gonzalez, Margarita Rosales; Salgado, Margarita Ines Zarco – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2004
This paper focuses on the capacity building of "local partnership" members or leaders as development agents in their Mayan communities. It relates to an education/training process started in 1995 in four different regions of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico, which was carried out by Non Governmental Organizations (NGO) and academic…
Descriptors: Maya (People), Sustainable Development, Rural Development, Change Agents