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Dissemination of agricultural innovations: socio - economic analysis of communication channels used in improved chickpea (Cicer arietinum l) varieties in Embu county, Kenya

Caroline Anyango Oywer

Chickpea is the world‟s second most widely grown leguminous food crop after soybean. In Kenya however, chickpea is a new crop and not known by many. This could be due to insufficient agricultural information on the crop. Hence, it affects …

RUF-36531 2016 CC BY 4.0 7 Dec 2016

Developing capacity for change of students and staff in Higher Education to enhance the potential of innovation in agriculture

J. Ekong · C. Grovermann · R. Hawkins · A.S. Moussa +1 more

There is a compelling need to transform Africa’s agriculture as embodied in the aspirations of the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). To achieve broad-based improvements in agricultural productivity, competiti…

RUF-36518 2016 CC BY 4.0 23 Nov 2016

Creating channels, connections, and communities: Experimenting with virtual rural agricultural learning communities in Nkhotakota district, Malawi

R. Chapota · P. Chinkhokwe · J. M. Kisebe · C. Mloza-Banda

In the simplest form, an agricultural innovation system has three elements: the organizations and individuals involved in generating, diffusing, adapting and using new knowledge; the interactive learning that occurs when organizations enga…

RUF-36175 2016 CC BY 4.0 16 Oct 2016

Innovation systems perspectives: Institutional change to strengthen agricultural tertiary education in Sub-saharan Africa

E. Adipala · Nodumo Dhlamini · Wellington Ekaya · Washington O. Ochola

The changing face of African agriculture in the wake of myriad global, regional and local challenges requires adjustments in agricultural capacity development. Universities are better placed to spearhead this change but they too need to ad…

RUF-35269 2010 CC BY 4.0 17 Sep 2015