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Direct linkLandini, Fernando; Conti, Santiago – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2023
Purpose: This article aims at identifying the individual factors and socio-demographic variables contributing to extension agents' support for a ToT extension approach. Design/Methodology/Approach: A multiple linear regression analysis was conducted using samples of extension agents from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Nigeria. Findings: The…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Extension Education, Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Production
Landini, Fernando; Turner, James A.; Davis, Kristin; Percy, Helen; Van Niekerk, Johan – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2022
Purpose: To analyse and compare the extension objectives of individual extension agents across nine countries. Design/methodology/approach: Extension agents from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Paraguay, and South Africa were surveyed using convenience sampling (n = 2707). A typology of extension agents with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Agents, Cultural Differences, Extension Education
Landini, Fernando – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2021
Purpose: Extension workers' knowledge and competencies are fundamental to a successful practice. Most academic literature focuses on how to train extension workers, but neglects how complex their learning processes are. This article contributes to the topic by describing and analyzing extension workers' sources of knowledge and learning.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extension Agents, Rural Areas, Extension Education
Landini, Fernando; Brites, Walter – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2018
Purpose: This article assesses a non-traditional training methodology for extension agents, focused on the exchange of experiences among peers and the reflection on practice, with the aim of exploring its potential as a training strategy. Design/Methodology/approach: A quali-quantitative investigation was conducted, which included interviews with…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Extension Agents, Reflection, Training Methods
Landini, Fernando – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2016
Purpose: In this paper, the knowledge dynamics of the farmer-rural extensionist' interface were explored from extensionists' perspective with the aim of understanding the matchmaking processes between supply and demand of extension services at the micro-level. Design/methodology/approach: Forty semi-structured interviews were conducted with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Extension, Semi Structured Interviews, Extension Agents
Landini, Fernando – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2015
Purpose: This paper reflects upon the practice of Argentine rural extensionists working in the extension public system through the process of identifying different rural extensionists' types of mindsets and comparing them with transfer of technology extension approach, dialogical processes of horizontal knowledge exchange, participatory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Extension, Extension Agents, Technology Transfer
