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Download full textHubchen, Jonathan M. – 1990
The Central Visayas Regional Project (CVRP) 1 aims to use community based participation to address environmental dilemmas, particularly watershed management, which are exacerbated by harmful local production practices. The CVRP employs many characteristics of Farming Systems Research and Extension (FSR&E) which provides technical training in…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Engineering, Community Involvement
Quesada, Gustavo M. – 1973
Personal interviews were conducted in July, 1967, with 315 farm operators in rural Brazil where the local extension service had been in operation for more than four years. Patron-dependence (PD) was described as the subscription to a value system, according to the individual's position in the status structure, which produces dependency at…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Skills, Communications
Gilbert, Elon H.; And Others – 1980
The objectives of the state-of-the-art paper, second in a series on farming systems research (FSR) in the Third World, are to: (1) review the literature on farming systems; (2) evaluate farming systems research in international institutes and in national agricultural research systems in the Third World; and (3) recommend what can be done to…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Data Collection, Definitions, Developing Nations
Gibbons, Michael J.; Schroeder, Richard – 1987
This Spanish-language manual, developed for training Peace Corps volunteers for service in Spanish-speaking developing countries, explains the process of agricultural extension and provides practical guidance on carrying out an extension program. The first of six chapters explains what agricultural extension is and how it is used in the Peace…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Skills, Case Studies, Cooperatives
Gibbons, Michael J.; Schroeder, Richard – 1983
This manual, developed for training Peace Corps volunteers for service in developing countries, explains the process of agricultural extension and provides practical guidance on carrying out an agricultural extension program. The manual is organized into six chapters. The first chapter explains what agricultural extension is and how it is used in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Agricultural Skills, Case Studies, Cooperatives
2001
This symposium on assessment and evaluation modeling consists of three presentations. "Training Assessment Among Kenyan Smallholder Entrepreneurs" (George G. Shibanda, Jemymah Ingado, Bernard Nassiuma) reports a study that assessed the extent to which the need for knowledge, information, and skills among small scale farmers can promote…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Farmer Education, Agribusiness, Case Studies
