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Hamunen, Katri; Appelstrand, Marie; Hujala, Teppo; Kurttila, Mikko; Sriskandarajah, Nadarajah; Vilkriste, Lelde; Westberg, Lotten; Tikkanen, Jukka – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2015
Purpose: This paper explores the concept of peer-to-peer learning (P2PL) in the context of North-European small-scale forest owners. The aim is to develop a framework for initiating new and evaluating already existing forest owners' P2PL communities. Design: Previous studies of peer-learning are used to determine and justify eight dimensions for…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Peer Teaching, Forestry Occupations, Forestry
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Charatsari, Chrysanthi; Papadaki-Klavdianou, Afroditi; Michailidis, Anastasios – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2011
This study assessed farmers' willingness to pay for and spend time attending an Agricultural Educational Program (AEP). Primary data on the demographic and socio-economic variables of farmers were collected from 355 farmers selected randomly from Northern Greece. Descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis methods were used in order to meet…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Multivariate Analysis, Foreign Countries, Paying for College
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Sambodo, Leonardo A. A. T.; Nuthall, Peter L. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2010
Purpose: This study traced the origins of subsistence Farmers' technology adoption attitudes and extracted the critical elements in their decision making systems. Design/Methodology/Approach: The analysis was structured using a model based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). The role of a "bargaining process" was particularly…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Foreign Countries, Social Influences, Cultural Influences
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Kumaran, M.; Vimala, D. Deboral; Chandrasekaran, V. S.; Alagappan, M.; Raja, S. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2012
Purpose: Public-funded fisheries extension services have been blamed as poor and responsible for the slow pace of aquaculture development in India. The present investigation aimed to find concrete interventions to streamline the extension service by understanding the research-extension-farmer linkage indirectly in terms of information sources of…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Extension Agents, Information Sources, Foreign Countries
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Oladele, O. I.; Adekoya, A. E. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2006
This paper examines the implications of farmers' propensity to discontinue the adoption of agricultural technologies in southwestern Nigeria. This is predicated on the fact that extension education process should be proactive in addressing farmers in order to sustain the adoption process. Empirical studies looking at diffusion processes from an…
Descriptors: Intervention, Extension Education, Foreign Countries, Adoption