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Adauto B. Rocha Junior; Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2025
Purpose: This paper analyzes the impact of agricultural extension on the production of Brazilian family farmers, breaking down differences among extension providers. Design/Methodology/Approach: An Output Distance Function was estimated for Brazilian family farming using 5,463 municipality-level observations from the 2017 Brazilian Agricultural…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Extension Education, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Tarekegne, Chalachew; Wesselink, Renate; Biemans, Harm J. A.; Mulder, Martin – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2021
Purpose: Enhancing the relevance of rural extension services requires aligning extension education to the roles, tasks, activities and competencies of smallholder farmers. The objective of this study is to follow up on previous competence studies and to construct a validated competence framework. Design/Methodology/Approach: Competence frameworks…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Farm Management, Rural Extension, Agricultural Education
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2017
The State University System of Florida Board of Governor's Annual Accountability Report provides retrospective year-over-year and longer time periods of tracking for how the System is progressing toward its goals. This Annual Accountability Report provides information regarding the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) from…
Descriptors: Accountability, Universities, Agricultural Education, State Universities
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Crawford, Anne; Nettle, Ruth; Paine, Mark; Kabore, Carolyn – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2007
Managing the competing interests of productivity growth, environmental concerns, landscape change and societal expectations presents challenges for agricultural industries. Innovation projects supporting knowledge development to address these challenges often involve partnerships with commercial farms, a methodology which promises much but has…
Descriptors: Productivity, Community Development, Industry, Innovation
Fishelson, Gideon – 1968
This study estimated rates of return to public investments in human and research capital (formal schooling and extension and vocational agricultural education) in the United States agricultural industry. (Southern states were excluded because of demographic and educational factors that would have biased the variables.) Output per farm was defined…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Correlation, Cost Effectiveness, Doctoral Dissertations
Norton, George W.; Paczkowski, Remi – 1993
This report focuses upon the economic and other contributions that agricultural research and education have made to Virginia over the past 40 years. Agricultural research, extension, and classroom instruction contribute in the following ways to Virginia's citizens: increased supplies and reduced costs, improved competitiveness, multiplier effects…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Production, Agriculture