Rural Extension and Innovation Systems Journal
Rural Extension and Innovation Systems Journal is published online free of charge, however, some printed copies are available for A$25 per issue plus postage. Please contact the APEN Ltd if you would like a copy (info@apen.org.au ).
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Volume 19 No 1 - 2023
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Research Papers- Peer Refereed Papers | |||
1 | Aysha Fleming, Elisa Raulings, Molly Marshall & Daniel Mendham | Increasing trees on farms through natural capital accounting | Download |
9 | Adeel Afzal, Sue Kilpatrick & Lydia Turner | Five capitals framework: Understanding the use and adoption of e-extension by dairy extension workers in Tasmania, Australia and Punjab, Pakistan | DOWNLOAD |
22 | Angela Dean & Tracey Schultz | From theory to practice- How insights from psychology can be applied in agricultural extension | DOWNLOAD |
Volume 18 No 1 - 2022
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i-v | Contents and introduction | DOWNLOAD | |
Practice - Industry relevant papers | |||
1 | Jane Wightman, Adrian Englefield, Bron Ford, Olive Hood, Jay Cummins, Jason Hingston & Chris Purdy | When do we know investment in extension has been worthwhile? | Download |
7 | Rachele Osmond, Felicity McIntosh & Jillian Templeton | Webinars applauded by chicken meat industry during the pandemic | DOWNLOAD |
10 | Tracey Nelson & Gina Luci | Bringing utilisation-focused evaluation into effect in virtual workshops | DOWNLOAD |
Volume 17 No 2 - 2021
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i-30 | As below | REIS Journal Volume 17 No 2 | DOWNLOAD |
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Research - Peer refereed papers | |||
1 | Tom Phillips, Marie McEntee & Laurens Klerkx | An investigation into the use of social media for knowledge exchange by farmers and advisors | Download |
14 | S Rundle-Thiele, C Roemer, R Anibaldi & P David | Identifying factors that support sustainable farming practice change: Application of Theory of Planned Behaviour in project evaluation | DOWNLOAD |
Practice - Industry relevant papers | |||
25 | Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Luqman, Muhammad Adnan, Muhammad Umer Mehmood & Muhammad Kaleem Abid | Training needs of rural youth for agricultural development: evidence from district Sargodha, Pakistan | DOWNLOAD |
Volume 17 No 1 - 2021
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i-46 | As below | REIS Journal Volume 17 No 1 | DOWNLOAD |
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Research - Peer refereed papers | |||
1 | L Turner, J Corfield, NTD Thao, M McCormack, R Smith, Lbonnie, NH Van & NX Ba | Farmer-to-farmer learning: farmer champion characteristics influence extent of scale out adoption in south-central coastal Vietnam | Download |
10 | Angela Williams, John James & Paul Prichard | Developing an Extension Model of Practice to guide and empower extension practitioners | Download |
21 | Hung Gia Huang & Douglas Drysdale | Factors affecting smallholder farmers' adoption of mobile phones for livestock and poultry marketing in Vietnam: implications for extension strategies | DOWNLOAD |
Practice - Industry relevant papers | |||
31 | Toolsee Gunesh | Underlying causes for farm abandonment among small-scale cane growers in a farmer regrouping project in Mauritius | DOWNLOAD |
38 | Caroline Smith, Michael Furlong, Grahame Jackson & Mani Mua | Developing a training system for Plant Health Clinics in the Pacific region by and for regional trainers | DOWNLOAD |
Volume 16 No 1 - 2020
Volume 15 No 1 - 2019
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Research - Peer refereed papers | |||
1 | Asisha Patterson & Wayne G Ganpat | Factors affecting Trinidad farmers predisposition to pay for agricultural extension services | Download |
10 | Md Kamruzzaman, Ataharul Chowdhury, Helen Hambly Odame & Silvia Sarapura | How do extension agents of DAE use social media for strengthening agricultural innovation in Bangladesh? | Download |
20 | Geoff Kuehne, Ruth Nettle & Rick Llewellyn | Key social processes sustaining the farmer/advisor relationship | Download |
30 | Thivahary Geretharan, Janet I Reid, David I Gray & Thiagarajah Ramilan | Agricultural support service provision - the voices of smallholder farmers from post-war northern Sri Lanka | Download |
40 | Nadeesha Jayasena, Brennon A Wood, Janet I Reid & Thiagarajah Ramilan | Smallholder participation in mild markets in Sri Lanka: A livelihood analysis | Download |
Literature reviews - Peer referees papers | |||
49 | Terry Parminter | Designing policy interventions to change environmental behaviours: theory and practice | DOWNLOAD |
62 | Michael Thomson, Amy Cosby & Dave Swain | Happily ever after ... A systematic literature review of the use of storytelling in extending agricultural research | DOWNLOAD |
Practice - Industry relevant papers | |||
73 | Warren Hunt, Cameron McConchie, Matthew Healy & Amelie Corriveau | An evaluation of small groups serving as an engine room for innovation in the Northern Territory mango industry | DOWNLOAD |
81 | Camile Conway | Peer support model as catalyst for change | DOWNLOAD |
86 | Lana Hepburn & Michael Nash | Prioritisation in practice: Targeted extension in Great Barrier Reef water quality improvement programs | DOWNLOAD |
Volume 14 No 2 - 2018
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Research - Peer refereed papers | |||
1 | Noel Vock & Evy Carusos | Retooling agricultural extension for conflict-affected areas of the southern Philippines | Download |
12 | Margaret J Koyenikan & Gloria N Vincent-Osaghae | Gender perspectives in coping and resolution strategies in violent communal conflicts experienced in communities of Edo and Ondo States, Nigeria | Download |
23 | Ina Pinxterhuis, Sarah Dirks, Denise Bewsell, Paul Edwards, Rob Brazendale & James A Turner | Co-innovation to improve profit and environmental performance of dairy farm systems in New Zealand | Download |
34 | Faheem Khan, Malcolm Wegener & Muhammad Zafarullah Khan | Engagement with extension services by small-acreage sugarcane farmers in selected districts of Pakistan | Download |
43 | Alison Hall, Lydia Turner & Sue Kilpatrick | Using a participatory approach to refining and prioritising recommendations for future extension delivery in the Tasmanian dairy industry | Download |
Volume 14 No 1 - 2018 (Papers from the 2017 GFRAS/APEN International Conference)
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Research - peer refereed papers | |||
1 | Jason Major, Will Grant & Sue Stocklmayer | Are farmers empowered? The role of empowerment in farmer decision making about weed and invertebrate management | DOWNLOAD |
11 | Dipanwita Bhattacharjee, Md. Safiul Islam Afrad, Md. Emanul Haque & Aliyu Akilu Barau | Gender mainstreaming and participation in shifting cultivation among Chakma tribe: A comparative study in selected areas of Bangladesh and India | DOWNLOAD |
19 | Ivie Olaghere, Abdulazeez Muhammad-Lawal & Kemi Omotesho | Constraints to liquid fertilizer usage in dry season vegetable production in the Southern Guinea Savannah Zone of Nigeria | DOWNLOAD |
24 | Achora JC, Sseguya H, Kyasse F, Mkomwa S & Okello D | ICTs for conservation agriculture: influence of actor positioning in knowledge networks in Laikipia and Machakos countries, Kenya | DOWNLOAD |
34 | Surya P Adhikari, Krishna P Timsina & Jeevan Lamichhane | Adoption and impact of rainwater harvesting technology on rural livelihoods: the case of Makwanpur district, Nepal | DOWNLOAD |
41 | Chandre Gowda MJ, Shrishail Dolli, Durga Prasad MV, Saravanan D & Sreenath Dixit | Pooled innovativeness and learning-pattern based adopter categorization | DOWNLOAD |
52 | Kelly Rijswijk, Denise Bewsell, Maureen O'Callaghan & James A. Turner | The Next Generation of Biopesticides: Institutional barriers and enablers to co-innovation in a science and commercialisation programme | DOWNLOAD |
62 | J Pickering, J Hong, R Stower, D Hong & M Kealley | Using psychology to understand practice change among sugar growers | DOWNLOAD |
73 | Heather M Collins, Dave I Gray, Janet I Reid, Nicola M Shadbolt & Anne E Dooley | Accessing and building social capital: How a farmer-led initiative influenced environmental policy implementation | DOWNLOAD |
83 | Lydia Turner, Roger Wilkinson & Sue Kilpatrick | Record keeping helps increase farmer confidence to change practices | DOWNLOAD |
91 | Chris Radcliffe, Norah Rihai, Cesidio Parissi & Anantanarayanan Raman | More than a political slogan: the value of kastom in extension for sustainable agricultural in Vanuatu | DOWNLOAD |
101 | John L Hawley, Kelsey Hall & Ataharul Chowdhury | Agricultural communicators' use of mobile devices and social media in USA | DOWNLOAD |
Practice - industry relevant papers | |||
110 | Linda Walters, Justine Severin & Louisa Ferrier | Filling the GAPP: supporting young and women farmers to grow, adopt, produce and profit | DOWNLOAD |
117 | Judi Walters, Robert Milne & Helen Thompson | Online Farm Trials: a national web-based information source for Australian grains research, development and extension | DOWNLOAD |
124 | Carl Larsen, Kelvin Montagu, Donna Lucas, Doris Blaesing, Anne-Maree Boland & Gordon Rogers | Evaluating the effectiveness of an integrated extension delivery approach in the Australian vegetable industry | DOWNLOAD |
130 | Sue Heisswolf, Siva Subramaniam & Verni Sivasubramaniam | Crossing the Valley of Death: different perspectives on main-streaming Eretmocerus hayati into vegetable IPM systems | DOWNLOAD |
137 | Wendy Boyce, MS Srinivasan, James Turner, Helen Percy & Simon Fielke | Combining a cognitive framework and a co-innovation research strategy to address water use efficiency | DOWNLOAD |
142 | Jayne Gentry, David Lawrence & Suzette Argent | Action learning with grain growers to increase understanding of soil organic matter and develop management strategies | DOWNLOAD |
147 | Zoe Creelman | Sharing the load: improving technical skills and competencies of women on farms | DOWNLOAD |
Volume 13 No 2 - 2017 (Papers from the 2017 GFRAS/APEN International Conference)
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Research - peer refereed papers | |||
1 | JA Pickering, J Hong, D Hong & M Kealley | Applying behavioural science to the Queensland sugar cane industry and its relationship to the Great Barrier Reef | DOWNLOAD |
11 | Ken Keith | Thriving or just surviving: social capital and resilience of long-term Landcare groups in Queensland | DOWNLOAD |
21 | Callum Eastwood, Toni White, Jo Sheridan, Maitland Manning & Kim Mashlan | Skills required by dairy farmers when strategically adapting their farm system | DOWNLOAD |
32 | Alison Hall, Lydia Turner, Lesley Irvine & Sue Kilpatrick | Pasture management and extension on Tasmanian dairy farms - who measures up? | DOWNLOAD |
41 | Chris Radcliffe | The Sustainable Agriculture Learning Framework: An extension approach for indigenous farmers | DOWNLOAD |
52 | Rabi Maskey, Helen Murdoch, Rebecca Pike & Nick O'Halloran | Assessing the impact of Beyond Soilcare project: using a Goal Attainment Scaling technique | DOWNLOAD |
61 | Nurul Hilmiati, Bamban Budiwiranto & Elske van de Fliert | Gender, ethnicity and engagement: Uptake strategies for smallholder cattle farming innovation in West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia | DOWNLOAD |
70 | Timothy Moravek, Brigid Nelson, Angela Anderson & David Reid | Quantifying the effectiveness of extension delivery methods on practice change - the experience of the Grazing BMP Extension Support Project | DOWNLOAD |
76 | Roxanne Henwood, Brennon Wood, Alison Sewell, David Gray, Hugh Blair, Lydia Cranston, Maggie Hartnett, Peter Kemp, Paul Kenyon, Rene Corner-Thomas & Steve Morris | Engaging with individuality in agricultural learning: a sociocultural study of innovation in a farmer-scientist community | DOWNLOAD |
86 | D Drysdale, M Hartnett, AM Sewell, DI Gray, PD Kemp & BA Wood | Measuring farmers' self-efficacy for managing perennial summer forages | DOWNLOAD |
96 | Sreeram Vishnu & Jancy Gupta | Evolving localized innovation system: The case of Imasree Farmer Producer Company | DOWNLOAD |
Practice - industry relevant papers | |||
106 | Rabi Maskey, Amjed Hussain, Rob O'Connor, Rebecca Pike & Paul Price | Impact of irrigation modernisation on farm performance and productivity: a case study | DOWNLOAD |
112 | Kaara Klepper, Howard Cox, Chris Dowling & Julie White | Utilising learning theory to focus nutrition extension activity | DOWNLOAD |
127 | Leah Garnett, Gae Plunkett & Troy Mauger | Using Rice$enario to improve the business of rice growing | DOWNLOAD |
121 | Hayley Eames & Rod Collins | Grains Best Management Practices: delivering productivity and sustainability outcomes for the central Queensland grains industry | DOWNLOAD |
127 | P Botha & RA Stranack | Integrated pest management strategies adopted by sugarcane growers in the midlands of Kwazulu-Natal to counter an incursion of the African Sugarcane Borer (Eldana saccharina: Walker) | DOWNLOAD |
131 | Matt Brown | Grazing BMP - encouraging management changes in the grazing business | DOWNLOAD |
135 | Mary-Anne Young, Merri Tothill, Justine Drew & Lyn Dohle | Experiences in supporting primary producers' recovery from the Pinery bushfire, South Australia | DOWNLOAD |
141 | Emily Maher, Anna Roberts, Geoff Park, Adam Knapp & Carole Sweatman | Evaluating a new model for the integrated delivery of Reef water quality outcomes | DOWNLOAD |
147 | Jayne Gentry, Howard Cox, Andrew Zull, Jason Brider & James Hagan | Developing and testing an analysis framework for long-term fertiliser decisions: Deep-P Calculator | DOWNLOAD |
151 | Asterio Saliot & Renelle Joy Tabinas | Academic and technology integration - educational program (ATI-EP) for out-of-school-youths (OSY) in conflict and rural areas of the Philippines | DOWNLOAD |
156 | Megan Willis, Brigid Nelson & Kate Brown | Extension through Grazing BMP: and integration of production and natural resource management | DOWNLOAD |
161 | Terry Parminter, John Greer & Lee Astridge | Fostering change in people management - the DairyNZ 'People Lift' Project | DOWNLOAD |
167 | Andrew Rouse & Craig Davenport | Project Catalyst: An innovation project for cane growers in the Great Barrier Reef catchment | DOWNLOAD |
172 | Joe Nkala | Review of successful land reform beneficiary projects resulting from co-ordinated service delivery within the South African sugar industry | DOWNLOAD |
176 | John James | When a virtual success is a real failure: leaning from the Enabling change and innovation webinar series | DOWNLOAD |
181 | Ashley Rogers & Tess Grieves | Chicks in the Sticks - supporting rural women to lead in agriculture and natural resource management | DOWNLOAD |
187 | Adam Royle & Lawrence Di Bella | Targeted sugarcane grower extension improves reef water quality | DOWNLOAD |
Volume 13 No 1 - 2017
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Research - peer refereed papers | |||
1 | Barbara King & Megan Hill | Mapping the extension capability of the Goulburn Valley fresh pear network | Download |
9 | Lydia Turner, Roger Wilkinson & Sue Kilpatrick | Boundaries of change: insights into the change processes of beef and sheep farmers | Download |
19 | Megan Hill & Sandy Hathaway | Using the 'Market, message, means of communication framework' to guide design of grape rootstock extension | Download |
31 | Lydia Turner & Lesley Irvine | Tasmanian dairy farmers and the pasture management learning process: Case study findings on the role of coaching in achieving practice change | Download |
Practice - Industry relevant papers | |||
41 | Peter Long | Benchmarking practices support grazing practice change | Download |
Volume 12 - 2016
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Research - peer refereed papers | |||
1 | William Kerua & Scott Glyde | Beyond the cocoa farm: a new look at farmers' choice in livelihood activities and impact on productivity in selected areas of Papua New Guinea | Download |
12 | Lynda Braddick | WA Wheatbelt landholders' perception of support for adoption of natural resource management practices | Download |
23 | Terry Parminter, Adam Duker & Jess Hughes | A regional collaborative extension project to decrease nutrient losses to waterways in the New Zealand dairy industry | Download |
32 | Michelle Graymore, Imogen Schwarz & Briana Bronell | Identifying farming styles to encourage farmer engagement in climate adaption and mitigation programs | Download |
Practice - Industry relevant papers | |||
43 | Irene Sobotta, Leanne Sherriff, Basil Doonana & Jane Weatherley | Farm300 - using a coaching methodology to support livestock producers in developing skills and implementing practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase profit | Download |
Volume 11 - 2015 (Papers from the 2015 APEN Conference)
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Research - peer refereed papers | |||
1 | Carla Wegscheidl, Phillip Trendell & Jeff Coutts | Evaluating the role of extension in helping to improve water quality in the Great Barrier Reef | Download |
11 | Lisa Cowan, Vic Wright, Geoff Kaine & Ray Cooksey | The influence of family and personal domains on change decisions on irrigated dairy farms | Download |
23 | Geoff Kaine | Factors influencing standing off and wintering off dairy livestock in New Zealand | Download |
33 | Michelle Graymore, Imogen Schwarz & Briana Brownell | Development of quick tool for farmer segmentation: Practical uses for extension work | Download |
43 | Sophie Folder & Jim Cavaye | The role of social capital in Tasmanian cherry industry value chain | Download |
53 | Victoria Westbrooke & Peter Nuthall | Smaller scale New Zealand dairy farmers: The context for future innovations | Download |
62 | Isabel Arevalo-Vigne, Nancy Longnecker, Ben White, Ian Walker & Ross Kingwell | Making sense of the science behind fruit fly control | Download |
72 | John James, Jeff Coutts & Raj Gururajan | Its all about the benefits: why extension professionals adopt Web 2.0 technologies | Download |
83 | Kelly Rijswijk & Helen Percy | Farming within limits: using an agricultural innovation systems approach to identify barriers and opportunities for change | Download |
93 | Jane Gray, Richard Clark, Terry Sloan & Ann Dadich | Personal and business improvements and innovations: Methodology and mechanisms for successes | Download |
103 | Kristy Howard, Anne Stelling & Cynthia Mahoney | Building women's participation in the wool industry | Download |
114 | Emily Barbi, Robert Denham & Megan Star | Do improved grazing management practices lead to increased levels of ground cover? | Download |
Practice - Industry relevant papers | |||
122 | Ee Cheng Ooi, Joanne Campbell, Ross O'Sullivan & Sarah Chaplin | The Dairy Fertility Investigator: blogging as a digital extension platform for agriculture | Download |
128 | Katherine Hollaway, Richard Vines, Julie White, Gavin Beever, Kellyanne Harris, Kieran Murphy, Carlos Lora, Kyle Thoms & Thomas McCue | How eXtensionAUS used integrated online tools to provide a national extension platform for Beet Western Yellows Virus | Download |
134 | David Stevens, Seth Laurenson & Tony van der Weerden | Developing decision support tools for restricted grazing managements to mitigate environmental impacts | Download |
141 | Jayne Chamberlain | Don't be afraid to try something new | Download |
144 | Cam Nicholson & Jeanette Long | Using temperament typing to improve your approach with clients | Download |
151 | Zoe Creelman, Jeanette Long & Danielle England | Equipping farmers to take a fresh look at rules of thumb | Download |
157 | Peter Ampt, Rebecca Cross, Helen Ross & Bruce Howie | The case for retaining, redefining and reinvigorating extension in agricultural innovation systems | Download |
165 | Marie Casey, David Stevens, Derrick Moot, Robert Phiskie, Andrew Wall & Bryan THompson | Lessons learned in delivering an extension programme for grazing Lucerne in Central Otago, New Zealand | Download |
173 | Helen Percy, James Turner, Neels Botha, Toni White, Bruce Small, Alex Fear & Andy Cooper | Beyond results: Planning science for meaningful change | Download |
177 | Kevin McCosker & Adam Northey | Paddock to reef: Measuring the effectiveness of large scale investments in farm management change | Download |
184 | Lawrence Di Bella, Dominique O'Brien, Michael Nash and Carla Wegscheidl | Targeted extension strategies to improve water quality outcomes in the Australian sugar industry | Download |
191 | Liam Ryan & Bryton McShane | Leveraging Twitter® to aid tactical fertiliser applications and soil management in the West Australian Grainbelt | Download |
197 | Simon Sankey | Using the Whole Farm Assessment process to improve New Zealand Dairy discussion groups | Download |
204 | Donna Lucas, Ashley Hobbins, Solphie Folder & Adrian James | Reducing on-farm emissions: successful farmer engagement by understanding the impact on productivity and profitability | Download |
201 | Kate Sargeant & Mark Paine | Building a robust capability framework to face the fast-growing challenges of the New Zealand dairy industry | Download |
218 | Kristen Stirling, Carl Larsen & Anne-Maree Boland | Improving the reach of extension projects in the Australian vegetable industry | Download |
225 | Hussein Al Moadhen & Sean Miller | On-The-Ground - A training, development, and extension program assisting the sheep sector in Iraq | Download |
Volume 10 - 2014
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Research - peer refereed papers | |||
1 | Aysha Fleming, Stephen Wilson & Penelope Measham | Research to practice - a case study in relationship building for successful extension | Download |
11 | MMI Shah, Will J Grant & Sue Stocklmayer | Underlying reasons for non-adoption, disadoption and continuing adoption of hybrid rice in Bangladesh | Download |
Practice - Industry relevant papers | |||
22 | David G. McCall | Responding to the challenge of getting significant change on-farm at pace | Download |
Volume 9 - 2013 (Papers from the 2013 APEN International Conference)
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Research Forum | |||
1 | Barbara King & Ruth Nettle | Private-public advisory networks: A case study of Australian dairy pasture seed | Download |
10 | Geoff Kaine, Sam Longley, Eloise Seymour & Vic Wright | The desire to adopt: Enhancing the psychological plausibility of adoption models | Download |
20 | Heather Collins | Resilience through change: 'Beyond reasonable drought' | Download |
28 | Jill Walcroft & Anna Taylor | Listening to end-users improves access and usability for climate change website | Download |
34 | Lesley Hunt, Chris Rosin, Hugh Campbell & John Fairweather | The impact of neoliberalism on New Zealand farmers: changing what it means to be a 'good farmer' | Download |
43 | Megan Hill, Geoff Kaine & Roger Ashburner | Where farmers' seek information when making purchasing decisions, implications for extension | Download |
52 | Rabi Maskey, Will Dalton and Terry Batey | Irrigator's considerations for change and investment in farm irrigation systems using economic criteria | Download |
60 | Victoria Westbrooke | Business options and strategies: a study of small herd owners views in the Waikato, New Zealand | Download |
67 | Penny Shaw & Philip Shannon | Coping with unchosen change - an extension practitioner's perspective | Download |
75 | Jill Greenhalgh & Philippa Rawlinson | A review of mentoring in agriculture: Another learning option for the next generation of New Zealand farmers? | Download |
82 | Daniel Healy, Kate Roberts & Danielle England | Understanding and developing farmers' adaptive capacity to effectively extend research results and achieve practice change | Download |
89 | James A Turner, Kelly Rijswijk, Tracy Williams, Tim Barnard & Laurens Klerkx | Challenges to effective interaction in the New Zealand agricultural research and extension system: an innovation systems analysis | Download |
99 | Janet Reid, David Gray & Hannah Bruce | Enriching the farm-management consultancy theory: practice nexus | Download |
104 | Terry Parminter | A deliberative and inclusive strategy for developing regional natural resource policy | Download |
114 | Maree McEntree | Beyond linear technology transfer: Examining learning environments in six sustainable agriculture participatory research projects | Download |
124 | Denise Bewsell, Bill Kaye-Biake, Alec Mackay, Robert Dynes, Margaret Brown & Oscar Montes de Oca | An introduction to the Exploring Future Platform (EFP) | Download |
132 | Rupert Tipples, Roberta Hill, Ken Wilson & Jill Greenhalgh | 'Decent dairying' - Findings from a Change Laboratory process to reduce fatigue on New Zealand dairy farms | Download |
141 | JB Pinxterhuis, D Dalley, I Tarbottom, M Hunter & T Geddes | Evaluating dairy wintering systems in Southern New Zealand | Download |
149 | David Stevens, Tracy Payne & Marie Casey | Evaluating a deliberative learning framework to deliver science on deer focus farms | Download |
160 | Neels Botha & Toni White | Distress and burnout among NZ dairy farmers: research findings and policy recommendations | Download |
171 | Bishop Ochuko Ovwigho | A framework for measuring adoption of innovations: improved cassava varieties in Delta State Nigeria | Download |
Industry Forum | |||
178 | Cam Nicholson | Analysing and discussing risk in farming businesses | Download |
183 | A Dunningham, J Walcroft, D Wilson, A Taylor & T White | Finding authoritative resources on climate change: Introducing the climate cloud: a digital library of NZ climate change related resources | Download |
190 | Brad Warren | The Australian Seafood Industry: Extension and social licence | Download |
196 | Carla Wegscheidl, Jeff Coutts and Adam West | The role of agricultural extension in improving the health and resilience of the Great Barrier Reef | Download |
204 | Chrissy Stokes | Overcoming challenges in supporting remote and regional growers | Download |
210 | Danielle England | The stepped adoption of grazing crops in Western Australia | Download |
216 | David Stevens, Marie Casey and John Scandrett | Impacts of a winter feeding management on-farm extension programme in Southern New Zealand | Download |
222 | Felicity Taylor | Agriculture extension though grower groups - a focus of Grain and Graze 2 | Download |
227 | Jayne Chamberlain & John Cook | Bringing smart technology to kiwifruit growers | Download |
231 | Terry Parminter & Jeremy Neild | Just knowing: tacit knowledge | Download |
240 | Liz Alexander, Nike Austin & Debbie Austin | All for one and one for all: the story of 'Harcourt' and the Dawson Valley cotton growers | Download |
247 | Matthew Pickering | Coaching for achievement in agriculture | Download |
250 | Rebecca Pike | A story 50 years in the making: The Benwell Surface Water Management System | Download |
258 | Roy Murray-Prior | Developing an agricultural innovation system to meet the needs of smallholder farmers in developing countries | Download |
264 | Shane Max, Sonia Whiteman, Severine Brun & Callum Kay | Learning from global orchardists' responses to the Psa epidemic | Download |
270 | Sue Pickering | Transformational change must engage hearts as well as minds | Download |
275 | Susan Hall & Rebecca Wallis | Making collaboration last longer than your average marriage - Lessons in supporting grower groups in extension over the 11 years of the Grower Group Alliance | Download |
281 | Jayce Morgan | Audiences within audiences | Download |
285 | Mark Blackwell & Jane Lacy-Hulbert | SmartSAMM extension programme seeks transformation to achieve mastitis and milk quality targets | Download |
290 | Alexandra Murray & Lyndal Hasselman | A solution to rigid government NRM planning requirements through adaptive management | Download |
Volume 8 - 2012
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Research - peer refereed papers | |||
1 | M Hill, B Rowbottom & G Kaine | Reasons for the use, or otherwise, of soil and petiole nutrient testing by Australian wine grape growers | Download |
10 | BR Stockwell, W Johnston & KJ Page | benefit-cost analysis of addressing rural diffuse pollution through the FarmFLOW Extension Framework | Download |
21 | R Nettle, W Waters, S Kenny & S Love | Crisis as an opportunity for change?: A case study of applying resilience thinking to extension response in dairy industry crisis | Download |
Volume 7 No 2 - 2011 (Papers from the 2011 APEN National Forum)
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Research Forum | |||
1 | M Titterton, R Eversole & J Lyall | The use of knowledge partnering as an extension strategy in adaptation to climate variability | Download |
7 | K Bryceson & GJ Slaughter | Aligning operational and corporate goals: A case study in cultivating a whole-of-business approach using a supply chain simulation game | Download |
Industry Forum | |||
17 | K Kruger | Engaging the community in biosecurity issues | Download |
22 | D Mason | Hawkesbury Harvest - a multifunctional agriculture model for regional rural development | Download |
27 | MA Sarker, AH Chowdhury, MAM Miah, MK Aurangozeb & FA Peloschek | Participatory rural video centre in fostering women's voices- A model from Bangladesh | Download |
33 | JG Vargas-Hernandez | Organizational sustainability: The case of handcrafts micro business in Southern San Sebastian | Download |
38 | G Reid | Building a coordinated approach to Climate Change extension | Download |
41 | C Bell & D Bayley | You are invited to the marriage of Extension and Vocational Training | Download |
48 | R Stephens | Informing and empowering those in horticulture to make better business decisions | Download |
52 | A McCaffery, J Montgomery, R Jackson, S Bray & S Priest | Optimising a model to deliver financial incentives - the lessons learnt through evaluation! | Download |
57 | J Smith, J lacy & S Fukai | Adapting the Cropcheck extension model to rice production systems in Lao PDR | Download |
63 | A Senn, B Upjohn, S Machar, W Yiasoumi & P Bennett | Accountability in action - responsible disbursement of grants for environmental works on farms | Download |
67 | A Senn, J O'Connor, W Dougherty & S Machar | Assessing on-ground works that reduce farm nutrient exports | Download |
72 | K Forge-Zirkler, R Ballard & M Taylor | Profitable biodiverse wool production systems for the Northern Tablelands of NSW: science and extension working together | Download |
77 | J Hamilton, M Quirk, R Dyer, J Scanlan, T Emery & D Phelps | A three-legged approach towards improved development and adoption of best-bet practices for managing grazing lands across northern Australia | Download |
81 | C Sudholz, D Shaw, S Wallis & J Wilson | A systematic approach to improving whole farm planning project delivery | Download |
86 | K Charleston, M Miles & H Brier | IPM workshops for growers and consultants - lessons for R, D and E | Download |
92 | J Sardelic, B Keeble, A Medhurst, G Kaine & E Tee | Innovative Service Delivery - A case study of new directions for the Victorian DPI | Download |
98 | N Botha & H Roth | Eliciting New Zealand hill country farmers' decisions to participate in a voluntary soil conservation strategy | Download |
103 | S Smith, M Connelly & W Hunt | Using structured self-assessment to improve cross cultural extension in the vegetable industry of the Northern Territory | Download |
109 | R Murray-Prior, FY Israel, RG Bacus, DI Apara, SB Concepcion, MO Montiflor, J Axalan, RJG Lamban, RR Real, PJ Batt & MF Rola-Rubzen | Reducing poverty through participatory action learning and action research processes with smallholder vegetable farmers in Mindanao | Download |
115 | T Parminter | Opportunities for utilising voluntary policy methods in natural resource statutory planning | Download |
118 | K Roberts, D Healy, R Apted & Mark Cotter | Restoring the landscape after Black Saturday | Download |
123 | M Smith & S Newman | Working with the Vietnam Women's Union - why a social-political organisation makes a good research partner | Download |
126 | P Thomas, S Adapa, E Davies, M Fortunato & T Alter | Intentional Innovation Communities: strengthening innovation performance in the Northern Inland Region of NSW | Download |
Volume 7 No 1 - 2011 (Papers from the 2011 APEN National Forum)
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1 | T Parminter | Pathways for innovation: influence of industry structures and producer social networks | Download |
11 | M Akeredolu | Innovations in the marketing of agricultural produce: the case of the FASO JIGI cooperative in Mali | Download |
21 | BO Ovwigho | Construction of socio-economic status indexes for heads of rural farm families in the central Agricultural Zone of Delta State, Nigeria | Download |
29 | M Hill & C Linehan | Adoption of centre pivot irrigation in the irrigated dairy industry of south-eastern Australia | Download |
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37 | R Uprety | Participatory learning for technology shaping and its dissemination: a case from Nepal | Download |
43 | MJ Coleman & BM Sindel | Developing weed management best practice amongst lifestyle farmers | Download |
Volume 6 - 2010 (Papers from the 2009 APEN International Conference)
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1 | S Brumby, S Wilder & J Martin | Milking their health for all its worth? Improving the health of farming families through facilitated learning | Download | |
11 | R Nettle & G Lamb | Water security: how can extension work with farming worldviews? | Download | |
23 | AS Herianto, SP Wastutinigsih, D Foster, M Rimmer & R Callinan | Agricultural and fisheries extension in Indonesia - origins, transitions and current challenges | Download | |
33 | G Stone | Facilitating an effective information supply chain from R&D providers through agribusiness advisers to growers | Download | |
43 | J McRobert & L Rickards | Social research: insights into farmers' conversion to no-till farming systems | Download | |
53 | TA Payne & DR Stevens | Trouble on the water: understanding the context of dairy farmers work in Canterbury, New Zealand | Download | |
63 | E van de Fliert, B Christiana, R Hendayana & R Murray-Prior | Pilot Roll-Out: adaptive research in farmers' worlds | Download | |
73 | R Nettle, J McKenzie, J Coutts, R Boehm, D Saunders, C Wythes, J Fisher, J O'Sullivan & S Kelly | Making capacity building theory practical: The On the Fast Track project | Download | |
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83 | KE Davis | The what, who, and how of shaping change in African communities through extension | Download | |
91 | D Stehlik | Achieving more socially sustainable communities | Download | |
95 | E van de Fliert | Participatory communication in rural development: What does it take for the established order? | Download | |
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101 | AE Carmichael, G Kong & D Beasley | Decision support: Developing and delivering diagnostic information to strengthen Australia's biosecurity | Download | |
105 | J Conte, C Baudains & T Lyons | Connecting the dots: What can we learn from other disciplines about behaviour change? | Download | |
111 | M Smith & V Brunton | Weaving diverse cultural backgrounds into the training framework: Using participatory learning in a formal training framework to help farmers produce safe vegetables | Download | |
115 | G Drysdale, N Markham, M Paine, A Michael & A Crawford | Using a 'levels of decision making' framework in extension | Download | |
123 | S Kenny & P Shannon | Using soft systems methodology to support extension program development in the dairy industry | Download | |
129 | S Heisswolf, J Coutts, k Bell, I Kay & S Subramaniam | Asking the hard questions - has our extension approach had impact on Integrated Pest Management implementation? | Download | |
135 | J Crisp | Planning extension activities for impact | Download | |
139 | PR Cooke | Education in Landcare groups: social learning aspects of adaptive management | Download | |
145 | N Guise, N Gannaway & Y Jones | Development of an innovative extension model for small landholders - an experiential learning journey | Download | |
151 | DA Evans & P Thomas |
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Volume 5 No 2 - 2009 (Papers from the 2009 APEN International Conference)
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1 | L Cowan, C Linehan & G Kaine | Evaluating incentive program success: a hill land class fencing case study | Download |
9 | N Kennon, P Howden & M Hartley | Who really matters? A stakeholder analysis tool | Download |
19 | M O'Kane and R Nettle | Partner Farms in multidisciplinary research: The continuing evolution of a research and development methodology | Download |
29 | N Hogg & JK Davis | What is hindering the adoption of new annual pasture legumes? Extension requirements to over come these barriers | Download |
39 | MA Sarker, Y Itohara & M Hoque | Determinants of adoption decisions: The case of organic farming (OF) in Bangladesh | Download |
47 | W Waters, D Thompson & R Nettle | Derived attitudinal farmer segments: A method for understanding and working with the diversity of Australian dairy farmers | Download |
59 | M O'Kane, B King & G O'Brien | Farmer risk perceptions and practice: Utilising notions of risk for extension in Project 3030 | Download |
71 | M Brown & D Bewsell | Is eLearning a viable option to face-to-face workshops for generating and sharing information within the New Zealand sheep and beef industry? | Download |
81 | D Bewsell & M Brown | Involvement and decision making on-farm: the use of wintering feedpads and nitrogen inhibitors on dairy farms in New Zealand | Download |
91 | V Photakoun, J Millar & D Race | Evaluating capacity building methods to strengthen livestock extension outcomes in Laos | Download |
101 | DM Gray | The known unknowns of climate change: adaptation in the Southern Agricultural Region of Western Australia | Download |
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111 | IC Plowman | 'Productive Meeting Techniques': How a group of people can engage in high-quality dialogue and reach wise decisions without talking to each other | Download |
117 | R Manning, P Wright & J Roe | Sustainable land management through local government: Improving integration of NRM into land use planning - the SEAVROC PLUM case | Download |
121 | M Hill | Using farmer's information seeking behaviour to inform the design of extension | Download |
127 | VL Stone & KL Devenish | Does the hard copy newsletter still have a place in today's electronic based information systems? | Download |
131 | T Makin, J Lawes, P Wearne & M Weise | Creating change around 'sticky beaking' and networking | Download |
139 | J Hardy, A Ryder & A Bathgate | Getting cold and prickly on saltland extension | Download |
145 | J Blake & G Shea | Learning from public private partnerships in extension - Case studies of joint initiatives with agribusiness | Download |
151 | K Bodman | Western Australian service to aboriginal pastoralists | Download |
157 | J Sloan & M Ryan | Farmers of the future: responsive, adaptable and profitable | Download |
163 | S Proust & P Brockwell | Graduate certificate in rural extension and community development | Download |
169 | P Mangano, J Bellati, K Henry, P Umina & D Severtson | PestFax and PestFacts - newsletters successfully facilitating interactive communication on invertebrate pest and disease control in broadscale crops and pastures in southern Australia | Download |
175 | J Bellati, K Henry, P Umina, K Charleston, P Mangano, H Brier, D Severtson & A McLennan | From boring bug lectures to interactive invertebrate learning - Using audience participation software to 'actively' transform grains industry training | Download |
181 | MP Thompson, A Carmichael, S Shattuck, G Kong, D Peck & J La Salle | Remote microscope diagnostics: Improving Australia's diagnostic capacity and biosecurity | Download |
187 | D Curray & R Reid | Peer group mentors contribute to diversified, sustainable and innovative farming communities | Download |
195 | E Maesepp & J Richardson | The farmers and the funders. A case study of the Upper Coblinine Catchment Demonstration Initiative | Download |
201 | D Fisher, K Kennison & G Ward | Wine, forests and smoke: Land users living in harmony | Download |
Volume 5 No 1 - 2009 (Papers from the 2009 APEN International Conference)
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1 | Aysha Fleming & Frank Varclay | Using discourse analysis to improve extension practice | Download |
11 | BJ King, MS Paine, R Beilin & MP O'Kane | Encounters with knowledge entrepreneurs and 'sticky' knowledge transfer: Case Study Project 3030 | Download |
23 | Sean Kenny & Geoff Drysdale | Working on a new frontier: exploring the methodological challenges of addressing complex problems | Download |
33 | Imogen Schwarz, Pam McRae-Williams & Danielle Park | Identifying and utilising a farmer typology for targeted practice change programs: A case study of changing water supply in the Wimmera Mallee | Download |
43 | Anne Stelling, Joanne Millar, Phonepauseuth Phengsavanh & Werner Stur | Establishing learning alliances between extension organisations: Key learnings from Laos | Download |
53 | JL Bond, SK Kriesemer, JE Emborg & ML Chadra | Understanding farmers' pesticide use in Jharkhand India | Download |
63 | Megan Hill, Ben Rowbottom & Geoff Kaine | Understanding the benefits sought from grapevine nutrition management by Australian wine grape growers | Download |
73 | Richard Clarke, Jane Gray, Garry Grifith, Tshilidzi Madzivhandila, Nkhanedzeni Nengovhela, Cynthia Mulholland & Janice Timms | A model to achieve sustainable improvement and innovation in organisations, industries, regions and communities | Download |
85 | Jeff Russell | Synergies of public-private grower-based research in the Western Australian grains industry | Download |
95 | C Eastwood and S Kenny | Art or science? Heuristic versus data driven grazing management on dairy farms | Download |
103 | Kawser P. Salim, Roy Murray-Prior, David Bowran & Moin U Salam | Cadiz and Casbah pastures in Western Australia: breeders' expectation, farmers' evaluation and achieved adoption | Download |
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113 | Richard Moore & Leonie Offer | Assessing changes in social capacity: experience with the 'Most Significant Change' technique | Download |
119 | Tafadzwa (Tafi) Manjala | An extension officer's perspective on practice change | Download |
123 | Scott McDonald, Alex Goudy & Vincent Versace | Transition of public extension to the private sector: a case study | Download |
127 | Kate Charleston, Melina Miles & Austin McLennan | Blogs about bugs: Embracing Web 2.0 to communicate with grains industry clients about integrated pest management issues | Download |
133 | Maxine Schache & Tony Adams | Benchmarking as an extension tool: instant gratification versus 20:20 hindsight | Download |
139 | Cindy Parsons | Different segments of the Western Australian farming community prefer different extension tools when searching for cropping information from the Department of Agriculture and Food | Download |
143 | Joanne Millar | Adapting extension approaches to cultural environments in South East Asia: experiences from Laos and Indonesia | Download |
149 | Janice Mentiplay-Smith | Carpet pythons and Biodiversity Action Planning: using an icon species to deliver extension in an agricultural and environmental context | Download |
155 | Jenny Treeby, Kirsten Henderson, Pam Strange, Caroline Welsh & Stuart Putland | Using scenarios to build a resilient community: lessons learnt in Sunraysia | Download |
161 | A McCaffery, A Fitzgerald & B Verbeek | Using supply chain management principles to build relationships with clients | Download |
167 | John James | Using Web 2.0 technologies to enable practice change in Australian agriculture | Download |
173 | Ronald Master & Dave Broadhurst | Lessons from applying the principles of the Salinity Investment Framework at a local level in catchment and farm planning | Download |
179 | Rebecca Heath, Susie Murphy-White & Jamie Bowyer | Community consultation in the setting of resource condition targets for dryland salinity ??? did it work? | Download |
185 | Jonathan England | Visual aids to increase the awareness of condition scoring of sheep - a model approach | Download |
191 | R Master, J Bowyer and R Heath | The 'Profitable perennials' project: a case study | Download |
197 | Gerry Roberts, Peter Hanrahan & Geoff Knights | Evaluation ??? chasing industry impact | Download |
203 | Darold Klindworth & Diana Carr | CowTime's 'Maximum Milk Out Times' was a good marriage of research and practice change | Download |
207 | Danielle England & Susie Murphy-White | Industry development: involving the whole industry in practice change | Download |
213 | Malwinder Pandher, Rabi Maskey & Terry Batey | Innovative approaches to service delivery to culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) farmers in Victoria | Download |
219 | Jane Hamilton, Chris Chilcott & Colin Paton | Towards a common goal: Combining an industry development extension package with a sub catchment NRM approach | Download |
Volume 4 - 2008
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1 | Bishop O Ovwigho & PA Ilfie | Gender disparity in cassava production in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State Nigeria | Download | |
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Volume 3 - 2007
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1 | Rajinder Singh, John Brennan & John Lacy | Economic assessment of partial adoption of extension programs: the case of the Ricecheck program in Australia | Download | |
13 | Bruce Small & Hein Roth | Preferred technologies and strategies for intensified pastoral production in New Zealand: are there human resource implications? | Download | |
19 | Glenda Steain, P Sullivan, P Blackmore & M Somerville |
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Volume 2 - 2006
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1 | Allan A Charry, D Roberts, S Knox & SM Mannix | Standardised ranking values (SRVs): the statistical population approach for easy on-farm identification of superior animals | Download | |
15 | Rod J Cox, GK Watson, TB McRae and CM Cunial | Opportunities and limits to the future of the Australian farmed venison industry | Download | |
27 | Bill Malcolm & J Crosthwaite | Analysing decisions about conserving native pastures | Download | |
39 | Alexandria Sinnet & LR Malcolm | Growth in dairy farming | Download | |
65 | Jonathon Tocker, N Shadbolt & J Gardner | Management information systems in two New Zealand dairy farm businesses of different scale | Download | |
77 | Lindsay Trapnell & B Malcolm | The net benefits from growing lucerne in the Broken Plains area of north-eastern Victoria | Download | |
81 | Geoff Watson, RJ Cox, TB McRae & CM Cunial | Development of change management initiatives for the Australian venison industry Ww | Download | |
91 | Ucheadausokwe N Uzokwe and UA Ofuoku | Changes in gender division of agricultural labour in Delta State Nigeria and implications for agricultural extension services | Download | |
97 | Ukara A Ofuoku, UN Ozokwe and V Ideh | Comparative analysis of co-operative and non-cooperative fish farmers in the central agro-ecological zone of Delta State Nigeria | Download | |
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105 | Patrick Mackarness & B Malcolm | Public policy and managed investment schemes for hardwood plantations | Download | |
117 | Christopher K Morgan |
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Volume 1 - 2005
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1 | Claus Deblitz, AA Charry & KA Parton | Farming systems across the world: an expert assessment from an international co-operative research project (IFCN) | Download |
15 | Rob Finlay, J Crockett and DR Kemp | Understanding land managers attitudes using focus groups | Download |
25 | Zelma Bone | Farmers and learning: a critical interpretive analysis of the value perceptions of education and complementary factors to success | Download |
37 | Bill Malcolm & C Grainger | Implications of changing a Friesian dairy system to a Friesian-Jersey crossbred dairy system | Download |
47 | Ross Wilson, AA Charry & DR Kemp | Performance indicators and benchmarking in Australian Agriculture: synthesis and perspectives | Download |
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59 | Tim Wiley & B Wilson | Fitting perennial pastures into an annual farming system: the case of the Western Midlands of Western Australia | Download |
65 | Sara Mahoney and AA Charry | The use of alpacas as newborn lamb protectors to minimise fox predation | Download |
71 | David George, JF Clewett, D Buckley, IJ Partridge & C Birch | Assessing climate risk to improve farm business management | Download |
79 | Janice Toner | Property rights: an analysis of their implications for understanding land rights in Australia | Download |
85 | Penny Scott | Making decisions in agriculture: the conflict between extension and adoption | Download |