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Alawa, David A.; Ajigo, Ikutal; Unimna, Fidelis; Udie, Elizabeth A.; Adie, John B. – Educational Research and Reviews, 2020
This study determined policy initiatives for improving the contributions of university agricultural education and extension institutions to environmental and sustainable development (ESD) in agriculture. The study was carried out in Cross River State. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study of 534, comprising…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Agricultural Education, Higher Education, Sustainable Development
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Lacy, William B.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1980
Agricultural Extension Service Agents perceive the greatest influence upon their programs to come from their client group, county extension councils, and college administrations, respectively. Agricultural agents see research faculty as having an important influence; 4-H and home economics agents feel research staff should be more influential.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, College Faculty, Extension Agents, Home Economics Education
Blauch, Lloyd E. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1933
During the past quarter of a century there have been rather continuous and persistent efforts for Federal aid to education. Twenty-one years ago the Congress of the United States enacted the Smith-Lever Agricultural Extension Act, and 3 years later it passed the Smith-Hughes Vocational Education Act. Under the Smith-Lever Act and subsequent…
Descriptors: Educational History, Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Extension Education