System lacks systems thinking: Top‐down organization and actor agency in China's agricultural extension system

[1]  I. Sobhan,et al.  Social-ecological and institutional factors affecting forest and landscape restoration in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh , 2023, Land Use Policy.

[2]  Yanzhong Huang,et al.  Can TikTok be a good way to extend the adoption of green control techniques? Evidence from rural China , 2022, Asian Journal of Technology Innovation.

[3]  R. Hu,et al.  Effect of agricultural extension services in the post-reform era since the mid-2000s on pesticide use in China: evidence from rice production , 2022, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability.

[4]  R. Hu,et al.  Governmental regulation induced pesticide retailers to provide more accurate advice on pesticide use to farmers in China. , 2021, Pest Management Science.

[5]  L. Klerkx,et al.  Unravelling non-human agency in sustainability transitions , 2021 .

[6]  B. Cook,et al.  Humanising agricultural extension: A review , 2021 .

[7]  J. Mills,et al.  How do we enact co-innovation with stakeholders in agricultural research projects? Managing the complex interplay between contextual and facilitation processes , 2020 .

[8]  Cheng-Wen Liao.  The role of agricultural extension services and farmers' practices in meeting smallholder farmers' needs in China , 2020 .

[9]  A. Dougill,et al.  Farming systems and Conservation Agriculture: Technology, structures and agency in Malawi , 2020, Land Use Policy.

[10]  L. Klerkx,et al.  Revealing power dynamics and staging conflicts in agricultural system transitions: Case studies of innovation platforms in New Zealand , 2020 .

[11]  M. Moglia,et al.  What is technology adoption? Exploring the agricultural research value chain for smallholder farmers in Lao PDR , 2019, Agriculture and Human Values.

[12]  Laurens Klerkx,et al.  Beyond agricultural innovation systems? Exploring an agricultural innovation ecosystems approach for niche design and development in sustainability transitions , 2018, Agricultural Systems.

[13]  S. Jaffee,et al.  The Challenge of Agricultural Pollution , 2018 .

[14]  J. Ingram.  Agricultural transition: Niche and regime knowledge systems’ boundary dynamics , 2017 .

[15]  Boru Douthwaite,et al.  Towards a complexity-aware theory of change for participatory research programs working within agricultural innovation systems , 2017 .

[16]  Mireille Navarrete,et al.  The resilience of family farms: Towards a relational approach , 2016 .

[17]  M. Pasqui,et al.  Perceiving to learn or learning to perceive? Understanding farmers' perceptions and adaptation to climate uncertainties , 2016 .

[18]  B. Bellotti,et al.  Farmers value on-farm ecosystem services as important, but what are the impediments to participation in PES schemes? , 2015, The Science of the total environment.

[19]  H. Ross,et al.  The case for retaining, redefining and reinvigorating extension in agricultural innovation systems , 2015 .

[20]  Sarda Prasad,et al.  Innovating organizational systems of agricultural extension in China. , 2014 .

[21]  C. Leeuwis,et al.  Functions and limitations of farmer cooperatives as innovation intermediaries: Findings from China , 2014 .

[22]  Jens A. Andersson,et al.  From adoption claims to understanding farmers and contexts: A literature review of Conservation Agriculture (CA) adoption among smallholder farmers in southern Africa , 2014 .

[23]  J. Coutts,et al.  Recommendations arising from an analysis of changes to the Australian agricultural research, development and extension system , 2014 .

[24]  Lisa Cowan,et al.  The Role of Strategic and Tactical Flexibility in Managing Input Variability on Farms , 2013 .

[25]  Laurens Klerkx,et al.  Unravelling the role of innovation platforms in supporting co-evolution of innovation: Contributions and tensions in a smallholder dairy development programme , 2013 .

[26]  A. Neef,et al.  Adapting the innovation systems approach to agricultural development in Vietnam: challenges to the public extension service , 2013 .

[27]  F. Berkes,et al.  Community Resilience: Toward an Integrated Approach , 2013 .

[28]  Mirza B. Baig,et al.  AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION IN ASIA: CONSTRAINTS AND OPTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT , 2013 .

[29]  Fusuo Zhang,et al.  Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollution in China: Causes and Mitigation Measures , 2012, AMBIO.

[30]  Jock R. Anderson,et al.  The private sector's role in agricultural extension systems: potential and limitations , 2011 .

[31]  Lisa Cowan,et al.  Using general systems theory to understand how farmers manage variability , 2011 .

[32]  C. Leeuwis,et al.  Adaptive management in agricultural innovation systems: The interactions between innovation networks and their environment , 2010 .

[33]  F. Geels.  Ontologies, socio-technical transitions (to sustainability), and the multi-level perspective , 2010 .

[34]  J. Ekboir,et al.  The art and science of innovation systems inquiry: Applications to Sub-Saharan African agriculture , 2009 .

[35]  David J. Spielman,et al.  An innovation systems perspective on strengthening agricultural education and training in sub-Saharan Africa , 2008 .

[36]  Jikun Huang,et al.  Farmer participatory testing of standard and modified site-specific nitrogen management for irrigated rice in China , 2007 .

[37]  B. Swanson.  Extension Strategies for Poverty Alleviation: Lessons from China and India , 2006 .

[38]  J. Castella,et al.  Social networks and information access: Implications for agricultural extension in a rice farming community in northern Vietnam , 2006 .

[39]  Rachel Percy,et al.  The contribution of transformative learning theory to the practice of participatory research and extension: Theoretical reflections , 2005 .

[40]  R. Bawden.  Systemic development at Hawkesbury: some personal lessons from experience , 2005 .

[41]  W. Rivera,et al.  The Continuing Role of Government in Pluralistic Extension Systems , 2004 .

[42]  Rosemary O'Leary,et al.  Whose Reality Counts , 2003 .

[43]  Frances Cleaver,et al.  Reinventing Institutions: Bricolage and the Social Embeddedness of Natural Resource Management , 2002 .

[44]  H. Høgh-jensen.  Systems theory as a scientific approach towards organic farming , 1998 .