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Farm Advisors Play a Key Role in Integrating Crop-Livestock at the Farm Level: Perceptions and Experiences in Brazil and France
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Fernanda Gomes Moojen; Myriam Grillot; Paulo César de Faccio Carvalho; Julie Ryschawy – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2024
Purpose: Integrated crop-livestock systems (ICLS) can foster agroecological transitions. However, knowledge on how extension services influence such systems is still lacking. The manuscript analyzes ICLS advisors' perceptions of the conditions toward recoupling crops and livestock at the farm level. Methodology/Approach: We conducted and analyzed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Agents, Agricultural Education, Rural Extension
Involving International Students in Designing and Implementing International Extension Tours
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Faé, Giovani Stefani; Roth, Gregory W. – Journal of Extension, 2020
International Extension experiences can provide valuable outcomes to clientele. Careful planning is necessary to maximize the benefits to participants and the potential impacts of the tour. International agricultural sciences students can benefit from participating in these tours and greatly add to their success. In this article, we describe the…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Participation, Agricultural Education, Program Implementation
Postgraduate Students: An Alert about Quality of Life
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Mendes-Rodrigues, Clesnan; Ranal, Marli A.; Carvalho, Deise V. P. – World Journal of Education, 2019
Productivity demand of Brazilian Postgraduate Programs has increased as a result of global scientific and technological competitiveness, leading to stresses among researchers and students. Thus, this work was aimed at evaluating the quality of life of students of one Postgraduate Program in Agronomy through the WHOQOL-bref. Of the 36 students…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Quality of Life, Productivity, Competition
Promoting Bio-Ethanol in the United States by Incorporating Lessons from Brazil's National Alcohol Program
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Du, Yangbo – NCSSSMST Journal, 2007
Current U.S. energy policy supports increasing the use of bio-ethanol as a gasoline substitute, which Brazil first produced on a large scale in response to the 1970s energy crises. Brazil's National Alcohol Program stood out among its contemporaries regarding its success at displacing a third of Brazil's gasoline requirements, primarily due to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fuels, Energy, Public Policy
Brazilian Soybean Production: Emergy Analysis with an Expanded Scope
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Ortega, Enrique; Cavalett, Otavio; Bonifacio, Robert; Watanabe, Marcos – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2005
This article offers the results of emergy analysis used to evaluate four different soybean production systems in Brazil that were divided into two main categories: biological models (organic and ecological farms) and industrial models (green-revolution chemical farms and herbicide with no-tillage farms). The biological models show better…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Agronomy
Paulo Freire in Chile, 1964-1969: "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" in Its Sociopolitical Economic Context
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Holst, John D. – Harvard Educational Review, 2006
In this article, John Holst presents findings of his historical research on Paulo Freire's educational work in Chile from 1964 to 1969. Freire's "Education as the Practice of Freedom", which was written in 1965 from notes he brought from Brazil, was informed by a liberal developmentalist outlook. In contrast, his "Pedagogy of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Philosophy, Educational History, Critical Theory