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  title info:
    title: Adapting agricultural extension to peacebuilding
    sub title: report of a workshop
  name:
    name part: Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding
    name part: (2012 : Washington, D.C.)
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Robertson, Andrew.
  name:
    name part: Olsen, Steven.
  name:
    name part: National Academy of Engineering
  name:
    name part: United States Institute of Peace
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 51 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Societies have sought to improve the outputs of their agricultural producers for thousands of years. In the 18th and early 20th centuries, efforts to convey agricultural knowledge to farmers became known as extension services, a term adopted from programs at Oxford and Cambridge designed to extend the knowledge generated at universities to surrounding communities. Traditionally, extension services have emphasized a top-down model of technology transfer that encourages and teaches producers to use cop and livestock varieties and agricultural practices that will increase food production. More recently, extension services have moved toward a facilitation model, in which extension agents work with producers to identify their needs and the best sources of expertise to help meet those needs. On May 1, 2012, the Roundtable on Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding held a workshop in Washington, DC, to explore whether and how extension activities could serve peacebuilding purposes. The Roundtable is a partnership between the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the US Institute of Peach (USIP). It consists of senior executives and experts from leading governmental organizations, universities, corporations, and nongovernmental organizations, was established in 2011 to make a measurable and positive impact on conflict management, peacebuilding, and security capabilities. Its principal goals are to accelerate the application of science and technology to the process of peacebuilding and stabilization, to promote systematic, high-level communication between peacebuilding and technical organizations on the problems faced and the technical capabilities required for successful peacebuilding and to collaborate in applying new science and technology to the most pressing challenges for local and international peacebuilders working in conflict zones.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Conflict in rural settings -- Extension services in fragile societies -- Capacity building and training -- Organizational change and institution building -- Technological infrastructure -- Final observations.
  note: by the National Academy of Engineering and United States Institute of Peace Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Peace-building, American
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
    topic: Research
    topic: Sociological aspects
  identifier: 0309259673
  identifier: 9780309259675
  record info:
    record content source: NRZ
    record creation date: 121031
    record change date: 20151203084255.0
    record identifier: in00002789226