Key features of the regional producer network for enabling social learning

Andrew, Jennifer

doi:10.1071/ea02086

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“…Leeuwis and Pyburn (2002) conducted comprehensive studies on the social learning network in agriculture. Sociological approaches were used mainly in social learning in agriculture as follows: technological innovation in genetically modified crops (Oreszczyn et al, 2010); farmers' markets (Hinrichs et al, 2004); organic farmers' networks (Kroma, 2006); and sustainable or environmentally friendly agriculture (Naiper and Tucker 2001;Andrew, 2003;Nerbonne and Lentz, 2003;Ingram, 2010). With social learning in environmental research, issues on environmental education and raising awareness of the environment have been studied (Measham, 2006;Raymond et al, 2010).…”

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Evaluating Operators' Attitudes to Educational Tourism in Dairy Farms: The Case of Japan

Ohe

2012

Tourism Economics

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Although the educational function is attracting growing attention as a kind of multifunctionality in agriculture, educational services are not yet provided as a viable farm product. With regard to establishing a viable market for this service, this paper explores how the educational externality could be internalized by focusing on educational dairy farms in Japan. The author evaluates quantitatively the attitudes of operators towards establishing a viable service, as revealed by a questionnaire survey. First, a conceptual framework was devised to express their orientation towards an economically viable service by incorporating a stepwise internalization process of positive externalities with the help of a social learning network. Then, empirically, statistical tests were conducted and factors that determined this orientation, a viable service determinant function, were explored by means of the ordered logit model. The results show that, first, the higher the number of visitors to the farm the more operators are oriented towards a viable service, while no connection with ordinary dairy production is demonstrated. Second, social learning is effective for initiating the internalization process. Third, marketing skills become more important for upgrading the internalization level. Consequently, it is important to create opportunities for those farmers who want to provide consumers with educational services to learn a new role for agriculture and to establish a new income source.

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Evaluating Operators' Attitudes to Educational Tourism in Dairy Farms: The Case of Japan

Ohe

2012

Tourism Economics

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“…(Morgan and Murdoch, 2000: 161). The primary actors in these horizontal learning networks are farmers, who share their experiences with particular production techniques (Hassanein and Kloppenburg, 1995;Hassanein, 1999;Andrew, 2003). Agency therefore is not determined by the position of actors in social or political environments, rather it is an outcome of their relationships with others, (including non-human others), and as such is a ''relational achievement'' (Whatmore, 1998: 26).…”

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Agricultural education: Gender identity and knowledge exchange

Trauger

Sachs

Barbercheck

et al. 2008

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…Two notable conclusions from the recent national Sustainable Grazing Systems (SGS) research and adoption program across southern Australia were that producers need to be 'in control of research and development to maximise learning and on-ground change' (Andrew 2003) and that they benefited from interactions with others especially in a 'non-threatening environment'. The SGS Project reported that producer participation before, during and after the project was recognised as vital to achieving practice change and the project reinforced an increasing interest in producer involvement in research and adoption relating to grazing enterprises (Simpson et al 2003).…”

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Creating the Cicerone Project: seeking closer engagement between livestock producers, research and extension

Sutherland¹,

Scott

Gray

et al. 2013

Anim. Prod. Sci.

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Abstract.A unique project led by livestock producers, called the Cicerone Project, was undertaken on the Northern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia, following acknowledgement by those producers of a widening gap between them and research and extension information. The overall aim of the project was to co-learn, through a partnership between livestock producers, research, extension and other specialists, how to improve the profitability and sustainability of grazing enterprises in that region. It was hypothesised that closer engagement would help to guide relevant research efforts and also enhance the adoption of research findings. With the support of industry funding and the collaboration of key research, education and extension partners, the inaugural steering committee of the Cicerone Project commissioned a survey of over 300 land managers in the region to explore their research and adoption needs. The survey identified the most important issues and found a high level of commitment to the formation of this producer-led project. Negotiations between all collaborators led to the creation of a Business Plan prepared as the basis for an initial funding period of 5 years. Subsequent reviews of the project allowed for extensions with associated activities over an additional 4 years. In order to study the key farm management alternatives identified from the producer survey, the Cicerone Project Board decided to adopt an agricultural ecosystem approach which conducted studies using three whole-farmlet systems. The farmlet experiment compared three contiguous farmlets by measuring as many aspects of the farm systems as possible using an approach summarised in the motto adopted by the Cicerone Project of 'compare-measure-learn-adopt'. A wide range of field days and seminars were held over the duration of the project to deliver the results to the producer members. This paper provides an introduction to a Special Issue containing 24 papers which report on the entirety of the project from planning, to execution, results, and reflections on the value obtained from the many research and extension activities, with particular emphasis on the farming systems trial conducted between 2000 and 2006.

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Key features of the regional producer network for enabling social learning

Cited by 15 publications

References 7 publications

Evaluating Operators' Attitudes to Educational Tourism in Dairy Farms: The Case of Japan

Evaluating Operators' Attitudes to Educational Tourism in Dairy Farms: The Case of Japan

Agricultural education: Gender identity and knowledge exchange

Creating the Cicerone Project: seeking closer engagement between livestock producers, research and extension

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