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Scaling service delivery in a failed state: cocoa smallholders, Farmer Field Schools, persistent bureaucrats and institutional work in Côte d’Ivoire

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2017
The increased use of sustainability standards in the international trade in cocoa challenges companies to find effective modes of service delivery to large numbers of small-scale farmers.
Sander Muilerman, Sietze Vellema
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Smarter Sensors Through Machine Learning: Historical Insights and Emerging Trends across Sensor Technologies

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights how machine learning (ML) algorithms are employed to enhance sensor performance, focusing on gas and physical sensors such as haptic and strain devices. By addressing current bottlenecks and enabling simultaneous improvement of multiple metrics, these approaches pave the way toward next‐generation, real‐world sensor applications.
Kichul Lee, Osman Gul, Yeongjae Kwon, Jaeseok Jeong, Seokjoo Cho, Jihyeon Ahn, Jehee Yu, Cheolmin Kim, Donho Lee, Hyeonseok Han, Byeongju Lee, Jungrak Choi, Ji‐Hwan Ha, Yongrok Jeong, Kyungnam Kang, Ali Javey, Junseong Ahn, Inkyu Park   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Real‐Time 3D Ultrasound Imaging with an Ultra‐Sparse, Low Power Architecture

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This article presents a novel, ultra‐sparse ultrasound architecture that paves the way for wearable real‐time 3D imaging. By integrating a unique convolutional array with chirped data acquisition, the system achieves high‐resolution volumetric scans at a fraction of the power and hardware complexity.
Colin Marcus, Md Osman Goni Nayeem, Aastha Shah, Jason Hou, Shrihari Viswanath, Maya Eusebio, David Sadat, Anantha P. Chandrakasan, Tolga Ozmen, Canan Dagdeviren   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Impact of Farmer Field Schools on the Adoption of Sustainable Agricultural Practices and Farm Production: A Case of Pakistani Citrus Growers

Agronomy, 2022
In the wake of recent climate changes, extension services have become crucial drivers in disseminating information about the latest agriculture technologies and facilitating sustainable agricultural productivity.
Awais Jabbar, Wei Liu, Ye Wang, Jian Zhang, Qun Wu, Jianchao Peng   +5 more
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Participatory Common Learning in Groups of Dairy Farmers in Uganda (FFS approach) and Danish Stable Schools [PDF]

, 2007
Farmer Field Schools (FFS) is a well-known concept, which is widely used in many types of farming systems in the Global South. In this report different approaches to FFS adjusted to Ugandan smallholder dairy systems and to Danish organic dairy systems ...
Vaarst, Mette
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Liquid Metal Microrobots for Magnetically Guided Transvascular Navigation

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Liquid metal‐based microrobots combine magnetic steering, intrinsic X‐ray visibility and softness, to navigate blood vessels even against flow. Under clinically relevant magnetic fields, liquid metal microrobots roll along vessel walls, cross endothelial barriers, and accumulate in target tissues.
Xiaohui Ju, Roshan Velluvakandy, Xianghua Wu, Miguel Angel Merlos Rodrigo, Zbyněk Heger, Kamila Bendíčková, Jan Frič, Martin Pumera   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecosystem as curriculum: Fish farmer coastal field schools approach for resilient shrimp farming in sidoarjo, east jawa [PDF]

BIO Web of Conferences
Shrimp aquaculture in coastal East Java faces challenges related to fragile pond ecosystems, high input dependency, and increasing climate risks. To address these constraints, a participatory action research approach was implemented through the Fish ...
Fadilah Ratnawaty, Ali Syafriman, Arfandia Afan, Wahib Muhammad shodiqul   +3 more
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An Increasing Misalignment Between Crop Distribution and Environmental Resources Under Climate Change in China

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Climate change reshapes the spatial alignment between crop production and environmental resources. Using multi‐source data and a crop model, integrated climatic, water, and soil endowments for maize and wheat are quantified and compared with harvest distributions.
Zheng'e Su, Zhentao Zhang, Jin Zhao, Xia Liang, Chuang Zhao, Zhijuan Liu, Minghao Zhuang, Jing Sun, Bo Lu, Ke Liu, Johannes W. M. Pullens, Matthew T. Harrison, Deli Chen, Xiaoguang Yang   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scaling and institutionalization within agricultural innovation systems: the case of cocoa farmer field schools in Cameroon

International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2018
The farmer field school (FFS) concept has been widely adopted, and such schools have the reputation of strengthening farmers’ capacity to innovate. Although their impact has been studied widely, what is involved in their scaling and in their becoming an ...
Sander Muilerman, Seerp Wigboldus, Cees Leeuwis   +2 more
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A Matrix Model for Integrated Pest Management as a Combined Function of Extension Education and Economic Concepts

Apstract: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2022
The Farmer Field Schools (FFS) help to establish the significance of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) concept, i.e., the FFS contributed to demonstrating the importance of the IPM idea.
Mohunnad Massimi
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