Effective farmer groups for defining best practices for sustainable agriculture
Kilpatrick, Sue, Bond, Liz, Bell, Rowena, Knee, Jacqui and Pinkard, Greg 2003, Effective farmer groups for defining best practices for sustainable agriculture, in APEN 2003 : Extending extension : beyond traditional boundaries, methods and ways of thinking, [Australasia Pacific Extension Network], [Hobart, Tas.].
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Effective farmer groups for defining best practices for sustainable agriculture
Practitioners and farmers are practical people. They are likely to be more comfortable with a process that develops monitoring tools and benchmarks for natural resource management than a process of group development and social capital formation. Yet the two are intrinsically linked. Policy makers and extension workers need to understand the link, and how to use a knowledge of social processes when designing the more concrete process of developing and implementing best practice monitoring and benchmarking with groups.
This paper reflects on the experience of establishing and working with farmer groups as they go through a process of identifying environmental issues, setting and monitoring environmental benchmarks and identifying and implementing sustainable farming practices to meet the benchmarks.
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070108 Sustainable Agricultural Development
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970107 Expanding Knowledge in the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
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