Background Factors Affecting the Development of Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education in Latin America

2015 ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Armando Samper
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Background Factors

scholarly journals Evaluating farmers’ perception toward the effectiveness of agricultural extension services in Ghana and Zambia

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Novas Somanje ◽  
Geetha Mohan ◽  
Osamu Saito
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Agricultural Extension ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Access To Credit

Abstract Background In this study, we present the current situation and the role of agricultural extension services for farmers and indicates the potential solutions for the optimum effectiveness of these services. Thus, we investigate the vital determinants influencing the farmers’ attitudes toward using agricultural extension services in Ghana and Zambia. Methods In this study, we used a mixed-method research analysis of data from a household survey of 240 farmers and 8 key informant interviews in the Upper West Region of Ghana and the Southern Province of Zambia. Results The significant factors affecting the association of agricultural extension officers with farmers are regular meetings, demand for services and productivity, and the adoption rate of technology. Notably, approaches based on information communication technology indicators include owning cell phones; further, having radio access significantly affects agricultural practices. However, the role of gender, access to credit, and owning a television would influence food safety and nutrition. Conclusions Understanding the critical determinants will provide potential solutions to national agricultural research institutes, private research entities, and policymakers to scale-up the effectiveness of agricultural extension services, particularly in Ghana and Zambia.

Agricultural Growth Accounting and Total Factor Productivity in Jordan

2020 ◽  
pp. 1709-1723
Author(s):  
Samia Nadeem Akroush ◽  
Boubaker Dhehibi ◽  
Aden Aw-Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Total Factor Productivity ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Factor Productivity ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Tfp Growth ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization

This article develops new estimates of historical agricultural productivity growth in Jordan. It investigates how public policies such as agricultural research, investment in irrigation capital, and water pricing have contributed to agricultural productivity growth. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) annual time series from 1961 to 2011 of all crops and livestock productions are the primary source for agricultural outputs and inputs used to construct the Törnqvist Index for the case of Jordan. The log-linear form of regression equation was used to examine the relationship between Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth and different factors affecting TFP growth. The results showed that human capital has positive and direct significant impact on TFP implying that people with longer life expectancy has a significant impact on TFP growth. This article concludes that despite some recent improvement, agricultural productivity growth in Jordan continues to lag behind just about every other region of the world.

Factors affecting professional ethics development in students: A qualitative study

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 461-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Dehghani
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Professional Ethics ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
The South ◽  
Focus Group Interviews ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Background Factors ◽  
Conventional Content Analysis ◽  
Group Interviews

Background:Ethics development is one of the most important aspects of professional practice in health sciences students. Understanding factors affecting ethics development can enhance clinical and professional performance in students.Objective:This study was conducted to explore students’ perceptions about factors affecting professional ethics development.Research design:This study is a conventional content analysis. Data were collected through 20 semi-structured interviews and two focus group interviews (12 students) during 2017–2018. Data were analyzed concurrently with data gathering, using the conventional content analysis approach of Graneheim and Lundman.Participants and research context:In total, 8 students of nursing, 5 medical students, 4 students of anesthesia and 3 operating room students in individual interviews, and 12 students in two focus group interviews from one university in the south of Iran were selected through purposive sampling.Ethical considerations:The research was approved by the Ethics Committee of one university in the south of Iran.Findings:The findings revealed two themes: personal and background factors. Personal factors consisted of the two categories of individual motivation and tendencies and interpersonal interactions. Background factors consisted of the two categories of role and function of teachers and environmental agents.Discussion and conclusions:According to the findings, both background and individual factors affect development of professional ethics in students. Understanding these factors along with reinforcement of educational planning in this field can improve healthcare services.

‘A sort of guerrilla’: Che at the opera

2007 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT ADLINGTON
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Us Imperialism ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Dual Commitment ◽  
Che Guevara

ABSTRACTThe undoubted cause célèbre of the 1969 Holland Festival was the large-scale music theatre piece Reconstructie, jointly authored by a team of five young composers and two librettists. The work, which took as its subject ‘the struggle against US imperialism in Latin America’, and revolved around the figure of Che Guevara, embodied the authors’ dual commitment to political engagement and artistic experiment. My account examines the work through the lens of recent scholarship that stresses the politically reactionary function of avant-garde experimentation within the cultural Cold War. In the process, attention is given to broader factors affecting the work’s production and reception: these include contemporaneous debates about cultural popularising and the Holland Festival; the complex motives of the work’s governmental patrons; and the influence upon the authors of Cuba, Castro and Guevara himself.

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