The participants from State include: George Christy, Thomas Godard, Harold Vaughn, Seniors;; Walter Parmer '51. Representing State in the Congressional Discussion will be George Christy, Thomas Goddard a n d Harold Vaughn, Seniors, and Paul LeBrun, Walter Farmer and Edwin Kurlander, Juniors. Miss Elnora M. Drafahl, Instructor in English, will act as one of the judges. Two members of the group, ...

In the mid 1980s, Brassica vegetable production in southern Queensland was at crisis point with insecticide resistance in diamondback moth, Plutella xylostella (L.), leading to frequent spray failures. Through a succession of projects, an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) system targeted at the local Brassica pest complex was developed with farmers and industry using participative processes. Str...

This paper analyses whether agricultural information flows give rise to social learning effects in banana cultivation in Nyakatoke, a small Tanzanian village. Based on a village census, full information is available on socio-economic characteristics and banana production of farmer kinship members, neighbours and informal insurance group members. This allows a test for social learning within the...

To increase profitability, farmers often decide to form strategic partnerships with other farmers, pooling their resources and outputs for greater efficiency and scale. These coordination decisions can have far-reaching and complex implications for overall food supply chain structural emergence, which in turn impacts system outcomes and long-term sustainability. In this paper, we describe an ag...