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Helping Farmers Adjust to Policy Reforms through Demonstration Farms: Lessons from a Project in England
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bailey,   Alison P.; Garforth,   Chris; Angell,   Brian; Scott,   Tricia; Beedell,   Jason; Beechener,   Sam; Rana,   Ram.
Market pressures and policy changes have heightened interest in knowledge and technology transfer in English agriculture. A government funded project, Forward Farming (2002-2004) established three separate pilots to test different ways of using demonstration to encourage change at farm level: a network of monitor farms covering the arable and livestock sectors; farms demonstrating integration between agriculture and the local community, landscape and markets; and a web-based virtual demonstration farm for the pig sector. This paper reports the results of a government-commissioned evaluation of the project. The methodology for the evaluation is described: quantitative and qualitative methods were used to collect information from host farmers, a wide array...
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation
Palavras-chave: Knowledge transfer; Demonstration farms; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24287