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Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda, Doria A. Medondjeu, Dorothy E. Fon, Stefan Sieber   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards new literacies and social justice for engineering education

, 2013
This paper argues for the need to develop engineering students with high levels of technical competency as well as critical awareness for the realities of working and living ethically in the global community.
Currie, J., Cumming-Potvin, W.
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Technologies, literacies in English oral communication and teacher education: an empirical study at the university level

Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
The main purpose of this article is to report data findings and results obtained in a 60-hour course designed for 20 pre-service English teachers in the first semester of 2014.
Reinildes Dias, Sônia Maria de Oliveira Pimenta   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating Blended Learning Effects toward Students’ Literacies for Higher Education Setting

Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature, 2018
The present study aims at investigating blended learning effects towards students’ accomplishment in terms of participants’ literacies in terms of reading and writing score and their motivation of attending the model of learning.
Ratnawati Ratnawati, Wawan Tarwana
doaj   +1 more source

Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences

AI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
wiley   +1 more source

Technological and affective literacies

, 2008
I have been working on the complex questions of multiple literacies since I embarked on a Ph.D. in Education at the University of Warwick (UK) in 1996.
Cole, David R. (R16972)
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Rural Education, Agroecology, and Literacies: 'Escola da Terra' and Teacher Professional Development in the Sertão of Minas Gerais

Revista Brasileira de Educação do Campo
This article examines the relationship between Rural Education, teacher training, and territory in the Sertão of Minas Gerais, focusing on the professional development course "Escola da Terra: Rural Education, Agroecology, and Literacies," conducted ...
Ivana Cristina Lovo, Helder de Moraes Pinto, Amanda Aparecida Marcatti, Natália Faria de Moura   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who wants to be able to do references properly and be unemployed? STEM student writing and employer needs

Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2012
The issue of graduate writing is one that has attracted much focus and debate in higher education, particularly around maintaining ‘academic standards’ at a time of expansion in this sector.
Yvon Appleby, Sian Roberts, Lynn Barnes, Pam Qualter, Vicki Tariq   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

How does the Kids SIPsmartER program impact the sugar‐sweetened beverage intake of students: An investigation beyond total treatment effect in randomized controlled trial

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This study develops and empirically estimates a structural framework to decompose the causal pathways of multilevel behavioral interventions targeting adolescent health behaviors. We apply this framework to the Kids SIPsmartER (KSS) program, a 6‐month, school‐based intervention evaluated through a clustered randomized controlled trial in rural
Naveen Abedin, Wen You, Annie Reid, Kathleen Porter, Brittany Kirkpatrick, Jamie Zoellner   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source