Este estudio proporciona, evidencias claras acerca de las bondades de las ECAS y de los impactos que pueden lograrse a partir de su uso apropiado, lo cual confirma y refuerza la importancia de trabajar fuertemente en la promoción y uso de las mismas como herramienta poderosa para la gestión del conocimiento en el marco del desarrollo rural sostenible a escala local y territorial.
Este trabajo buscó analizar la apropiación y aplicación de conocimientos y habilidades de familias cacaoteras que participaron en escuelas de campo en Bocas del Toro, Panamá.
El objetivo de esta investigación fue determinar a través de la información estadística obtenida por el VIII Censo Agrícola, Ganadero y Forestal del año 2007, la importancia que tiene la asistencia técnica en las unidades de producción en México para contar con elementos que sirvan en la toma de decisiones de éste servicio. Se realizó un análisis de la base de datos a nivel nacional y por zonas económicas a través de la obtención de frecuencias relativa
En la región andina está creciendo la necesidad por sistemas de I&D orientados al cliente, que incluyan la participación de los grupos sociales involucrados.
At the request of the USAID Malawi Mission, the MEAS project (Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services – a USAID funded project) conducted a rapid scoping mission to examine the pluralistic extension system in Malawi and to develop recommendations for strengthening extension and advisory services in the country.
Accordingly to the authors It is beyond the scope of this chapter to empirically explore the determinants of the commercialization of agriculture and its impact on poverty; so instead, they will present and discuss some empirical evidence on topics that remain hotly debated regarding commercialization and poverty. In Sect. 12.2, it is investigated how smallholder farmers in northern Vietnam have been affected by the recent food price volatility with respect to their income and consumption levels, while in Sect.
Participatory approaches have been discussed as alternatives to and complementary elements of more conventional research on sustainable land use and rural development in upland areas of Southeast Asia. Following a brief overview of the history of participatory approaches (Sect. 9.1), this chapter discusses the potential and limitations of applying Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) tools to field research practice in Vietnam (Sect. 9.2) and of involving stakeholders in priority setting, modeling and environmental valuation in the Southeast Asian uplands (Sect. 9.3).
Although many agronomic researchers currently focus on designing and developing decision support systems, they rarely discuss the methodological implications of such work. In this paper, with the examples of two decision support systems, we propose methodological elements for conducting the participatory design of such tools. The authors proposition aims at building dialogue between designers and users but also between humans, tools and work situations.
The general aims of this chapter are to provide an overview of the historical development of rural advisory and knowledge provision in Vietnam, and how legal frameworks have changed over time, demonstrate how more client-centered extension approaches can be translated and utilized at the field level, and focus on examples of novel approaches to knowledge generation and diffusion, those currently evolving due to initiatives driven by state, private and NGO actors, or developed within the framework of the Uplands Program.
In direct agri-food chains (DAFCs), farmers and consumers are brought together with the aim of shortening, localizing and synergizing an agri-food chain. As food moves from the farm to the fork, all the economic activities are performed by farmers/producers or consumers, and none intermediary is required to handle an agri-food product before it is consumed. Any DAFC form provide a sort of liminal space for social learning and for local lay knowledge exchange, through face-to-face interactions.