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ENVIRONMENTAL COMPONENTS OF AGRICULTURAL SUPPORT POLICY: HOW DOES CANADA COMPARE WITH OTHER OECD MEMBERS?
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As an avid consumer of natural resources, agriculture is a major source of environmental harm, but it is also seen as a potential contributor to its mitigation, indicating that environmental measures on agriculture could have positive impacts. In this work we categorize the environmental...
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2003-05-01
Promotional video for the MA in Communications and Technology (MACT) program in the Faculty of Extension. MACT was among the first online graduate degrees offered in Canada at the time it was launched in 2000. The year of the video is 2003. The MACT program moved to the Faculty of Arts in 2020.
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Making a Place at the Table: Examining the Impact and Influence of Women in Agricultural Leadership in the Canadian Prairies
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Since the first days of cultivation of the land, women have played an essential role in the development of agriculture of the Canadian prairies. Over the past 150 years, as prairie agriculture has undergone a range of socio-cultural, economic and technical changes, so too have the roles,...
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Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Agronomic Traits and Disease Resistance in a Canadian Spring Wheat Mapping Population
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Due to reduced genotyping costs and high-throughput technologies, marker assisted selection has become a valuable tool for plant breeders, allowing for identifying traits of interest in screened germplasm. Marker assisted selection requires the identification of stable, and consistent...
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Putting the Capabilities Approach into Action (Research): A Comparative Assessment of a Technology Stewardship Training Program for Agricultural Extension in Sri Lanka and Trinidad
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Gow, Gordon A., Dissanayeke, Uvasara, Jayathilake, Chandana, Chowdhury, Ataharul, Ramjattan, Jeet, Ganpat, Wayne, Isuri Kumarasinghe, Kumudu Ariyawanshe, Sanduni Rathnayake
Prepared for International Association for Media and Communication Researchers (IAMCR) 2020 conference. This paper reports on a technology stewardship training program aimed at operationalizing the Capabilities Approach with agricultural extension practitioners in Low and Middle-Income Countries...
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Fall 2020
Effective wildlife management involves understanding the population status and habitat of the species in question, as well as human interests in management decisions. Human dimensions are complicated - African wildlife topics often spark international interest in addition to local concerns. Most...
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Technology Stewardship and the Capabilities Approach: Assessing a Leadership Training Program for Agricultural Communities of Practice in Sri Lanka and Trinidad
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Gow, Gordon A., Dissanayeke, Uvasara, Jayathilake, Chandana, Chowdhury, Ataharul, Ramjattan, Jeet, Ganpat, Wayne, Isuri Kumarasinghe, Kumudu Ariyawanshe, Sanduni Rathnayake
This poster summarizes early results of a technology stewardship training program introduced with agricultural extension practitioners in Sri Lanka and the Caribbean. Technology stewardship is an approach adapted from the communities of practice literature that recognizes the importance,...