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Development of Farmer Champions and their role in progressing smallholder beef production in Vietnam

conference contribution
posted on 2023-05-23, 11:02 authored by Lydia Turner, Corfield, J, Thao, NTD, Lawrence BonneyLawrence Bonney
‘Farmer Champions’ have an important role in promoting adoption of best practice recommendations in the communities that participate in international research for development. This paper draws on data from in-depth interviews with three Farmer Champions. It describes how the role of these Farmer Champions developed and how they have progressed beef smallholder production in Cat Trinh, a commune of the Vietnamese South Central Coastal province, Binh Dinh. Farmer Champions firstly adopt or adapt study recommendations to improve their own farming systems. They are subsequently recognised as valuable sources of knowledge and resources by surrounding farmers. Farmer Champions then facilitate significant spread (or ‘scale out’) of improved practices to other farmers. Within their community this was found to occur primarily through informal knowledge transfer pathways, while their involvement in formal pathways extended benefits to farmers outside their community. Understanding the development of Farmer Champions and how they influence scale out provides information to guide knowledge transfer methods used in future research for development, and further improve adoption of best practice recommendations.

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Publication title

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Sustainable Animal Agriculture for Developing Countries

Pagination

624-627

Department/School

Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA)

Publisher

Thailand

Place of publication

Pattaya, Thailand

Event title

5th International Conference on Sustainable Animal Agriculture for Developing Countries

Event Venue

Pattaya, Thailand

Date of Event (Start Date)

2015-10-27

Date of Event (End Date)

2015-10-30

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Socio-economic Objectives

Beef cattle

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