Agricultural extension is booming. This interest is critical in the context of numerous pressing issues linked to agrarian change and rural development. Because of its importance …
Well-designed and supported innovation niches may facilitate transitions towards sustainable agricultural futures, which may follow different approaches and paradigms such …
C Leeuwis, BK Boogaard, K Atta-Krah - Food security, 2021 - Springer
This paper argues that supporting food system transformation requires more than obtaining science-based understanding and analysis of how components in the system interact. We …
Agricultural production involves the scaling of agricultural innovations such as disease- resistant and drought-tolerant maize varieties, zero-tillage techniques, permaculture …
The process of adopting innovation, especially with regard to precision farming (PF), is inherently complex and social, and influenced by producers, change agents, social norms …
Scaling of innovations is a key requirement for addressing societal challenges in sectors such as health, agriculture, and the environment. Research for development (R4D) …
Agricultural extension in the Global South can benefit greatly from the use of modern information and communication technologies (ICT). Yet, despite two decades of promising …
H El Bilali - Environment, development and sustainability, 2020 - Springer
The agro-food system needs a genuine sustainability transition to achieve sustainable food and nutrition security in the face of climate change, population growth, ecosystem …
B Douthwaite, E Hoffecker - Agricultural systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Agricultural innovation systems (AIS) are increasingly recognized as complex adaptive systems in which interventions cannot be expected to create predictable, linear impacts …