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Are Farmers Ready to Use Phone-Based Digital Tools for Agronomic Advice? Ex-Ante User Readiness Assessment Using the Case of Rwandan Banana Farmers
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McCampbell, Mariette; Adewopo, Julius; Klerkx, Laurens; Leeuwis, Cees – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2023
Purpose: Digital extension is widely embraced in African agricultural development, promising unprecedented outcomes and impact. Especially phone-based services attract attention as tools for effective and efficient agricultural extension. To date, assessments of digital extension services are generally ex-post in nature, thus consideration of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production, Information Technology
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
Structural Conditions for Collaboration and Learning in Innovation Networks: Using an Innovation System Performance Lens to Analyse Agricultural Knowledge Systems
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Hermans, Frans; Klerkx, Laurens; Roep, Dirk – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2015
Purpose: We investigate how the structural conditions of eight different European agricultural innovation systems can facilitate or hinder collaboration and social learning in multidisciplinary innovation networks. Methodology: We have adapted the Innovation System Failure Matrix to investigate the main barriers and enablers eight countries…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Rural Extension, Extension Education
How Dynamics of Learning Are Linked to Innovation Support Services: Insights from a Smallholder Commercialization Project in Kenya
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Kilelu, Catherine W.; Klerkx, Laurens; Leeuwis, Cees – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2014
Purpose: The important role of learning is noted in the literature on demand-driven approaches to supporting agricultural innovation. Most of this literature has focused on macrolevel structural perspectives on the organization of pluralistic innovation support systems. This has provided little insight at the micro-level on the dynamics of demand…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Innovation, Agriculture, Services
Operationalizing Demand-Driven Agricultural Research: Institutional Influences in a Public and Private System of Research Planning in the Netherlands
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Klerkx, Laurens; Leeuwis, Cees – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2009
The trend towards demand-driven agricultural research has focused attention on the inclusion of farmers in research planning. Theoretically, this should enhance ownership and increase the applicability of research. However, in practice, several tensions emerge with regard to the operationalization of such "user-driven research planning…
Descriptors: Research Design, Evaluation Criteria, Innovation, Foreign Countries
Shaping Collective Functions in Privatized Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems: The Positioning and Embedding of a Network Broker in the Dutch Dairy Sector
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Klerkx, Laurens; Leeuwis, Cees – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2009
This paper examines new organizational arrangements that have emerged in the context of a privatized extension system. It investigates the positioning and embedding of a network broker aimed at enhancing interaction in the privatized agricultural knowledge and information system (AKIS), to assess whether tensions reported in other sectors also…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Information Systems, Public Support, Data Analysis