The Acquisition and Diffusion of Knowledge: The Case of Pest Management Training in Farmer Field Schools, Indonesia

By G. Feder, Rinku Murgai, J. Quizon. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. S. Savastano
2. G. Feder
3. E. Nkonya
4. E. Kato

In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Y. Nakano
2. Valerien Pede
3. Takeshi Aida
4. Takuji W. Tsusaka
5. S. Savastano
6. G. Feder
7. E. Nkonya
8. E. Kato

Citations in the corpus

• Is farmer-to-farmer extension effective? The impact of training on technology adoption and rice farming productivity in Tanzania (2018, methodology): “The bootstrapped standard errors (Guan, 2003) with 500 repetitions of resampling are presented. We also conduct balancing tests on the differences in means after matching, as shown in Appendix Table 2. We find that no covariates are significantly different between the key and ordinary farmers and be”
• Impact of Farmer Field Schools on Agricultural Productivity and Poverty in East Africa (2012, background): “A brief survey of the impact literature includes the World Bank Asian studies (Feder, Murgai, and Quizon 2004a, 2004b; Rola, Jamias, and Quizon 2002) and additional studies in Cameroon (David 2007), Uganda (Erbaugh, Donnermeyer, and Kibwika 2001), Sri Lanka (Tripp, Wijeratne, and Piyadasa 2005),…”
• The Role of Opinion Leaders in the Diffusion of New Knowledge: The Case of Integrated Pest Management (2006, positive): “This is confirmed by Feder, Murgai, and Quizon (2004) who reported an analysis of the relation between pest management knowledge scores in this dataset and the utilization of chemical pesticides by the farmers.”
• New Challenges in Agricultural Advisory Services from a Research Perspective: A Literature Review, Synthesis and Research Agenda (2012, background): “Saravanan and Veerabhadraiah, 2003, in India; Foti et al., 2007, in Zimbabwe). However, as illustrated by the example of Zimmer et al. (2008) in the United States, current debates on the subject of funding advisory services focus as much on the different funding mechanisms possible as on the transfe”