Contributions to group work and to the management of collective processes in extension and rural development

Landini, Fernando Pablo; Vargas, Gilda Luciana; Bianqui, Vanina Paola; Rebole, María Inés Mathot y; Martinez, Manuela Rocío

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.09.014

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“…Third, empathy refers to the degree to which the business support actors attempt to understand and fulfil participants' needs. The findings strongly support the assertion that business support advisors need good interpersonal skills (Ingram, 2008;Klerkx and Proctor, 2012;Proctor et al, 2012;Landini et al, 2017;Mole et al 2017), and that the most effective network brokers are able to successfully mix the economic goals with softer social interests of participants (Huggins, 2000). It suggests that the interpersonal aspects of advisor skillsets are critical in gaining access to knowledge and networks.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 65%

“…In the rural, agri-food context, it has been argued that networks, involving business actors, such as government support agencies and third level institutions, are critical to successful and sustainable rural development (Oreszczyn et al, 2010;Faure et al, 2012;Phillipson et al, 2016;Bourne et al, 2017;Landini et al, 2017;Nettle et al, 2018). Here, the role of advisors as "champions" (Hewes and Lyons, 2008) or "grassroot leaders" (Sokjer-Petersen, 2010), is key.…”

Section: Trust Within Rural Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The example of the Emila-Romagna region in north-east Italy is often cited, with its deep culture of reciprocity and trust (Rosenfeld, 1996). Finally, advisors are required to move beyond the role of knowledge provider to one of facilitator, with the need to deal with complex social and group processes which require strong interpersonal skills (Nettle et al, 2013;Landini et al, 2017). Advisors have been traditionally strong on technical knowledge but not in the management of social processes and group relations (Landini et al, 2017).…”

Section: Challenges In Building Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Networks of business support for agriculture and rural affairs have undergone substantive change since the 1990s (Klerkx and Proctor, 2012;Proctor et al, 2012;Sutherland et al, 2013). This has centred around the privatisation of public agricultural research and extension systems, with the emergence of neoliberalism as the dominant model of governance (Labarthe and Laurent, 2013;Knierim et al, 2017;Landini et al, 2017;Nettle et al, 2018). In addition, a shift in objectives in agriculture away from production towards sustainable development, where the farmer is expected not only to be a producer but also an environmental manager, has led to a land economy which is more complex and diverse and where farmers have to solve increasingly complex problems (Phillipson et al, 2016).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Trust formation in agri-food institutional support networks

McKitterick¹,

Quinn

Tregear

2019

Journal of Rural Studies

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The important role of institutional support actors in building the networking capacities of rural economic actors and communities has been noted. Over the last two decades, rural and agri-food network models of institutional support have undergone substantive change. Trust is a vital feature of such programmes, however the nature of trust, and how it is manifest, in rural support programmes is underexplored. A longitudinal qualitative methodology is adopted, involving semi-structured interviews and group discussions with artisanal food producers and institutional actors in four cases of business support. Drawing upon cases demonstrating varying levels of trust, the paper examines how trust is formed, and lost, across forms of institutional support programmes and the underlying factors that moderate trust formation. The analysis provides insights into the conflicting narratives around trust formation from advisor-client perspectives. The paper contributes to theory development by offering a conceptualisation of trust building approaches in advisor-client relationships in rural support programmes.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 65%

Section: Trust Within Rural Communitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Challenges In Building Trustmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Trust formation in agri-food institutional support networks

McKitterick¹,

Quinn

Tregear

2019

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…This expansion process can be encouraged by joint knowledge and innovation created through networking. Rural networking facilitates agricultural knowledge extension (Rivera & Qamar, 2003), limited knowledge handling and diversified rural skills (Morrison & Ramsey, 2019), innovation (Douthwaite et al, 2006;Esparcia, 2014;Richter, 2019) which is consisting of knowledge innovation and innovation transfer (Dimitar et al, 2014), diversification impacted on economic improvement (Johny et al, 2017), group work character building, including trust, cooperation, knowledge and problem sharing, values respect, shared rules functioning and shared objective attainment (Landini et al, 2017) and networking competences (building effective, efficient, accountability and democratic interactions) (Bebbington & Kopp, 2012), the increasing employment, availability of natural resources (Rustinsyah, 2019), cooperation to face current situation (Jesus & Franco, 2016;Lee et al, Journal of Asian Rural Studies, 2020, 4(2): 154-177 E-ISSN: 2548-3269 Published by Hasanuddin University and Asian Rural Sociology Association 2005), bond and social connectivity (Tiwari et al, 2019), competitive advantage addition (Abbott & Fuller-Love, 2020), rural community resilience (Li et al, 2019;van Aswegen & Retief, 2020), changing environment adaptation (Chaudhury et al, 2017), rural development program evaluation (ENRD, 2016). Moreover, community dialog increases rural partners' understanding on needs and characters of the targeted developed rural areas (Lucatelli & De Matteis, 2013).…”

Section: Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Why We Should Talk? The Potentials of Community Dialog in Grounding an Integrated Rural Development

Suryani

Soedarso

Endarko

et al. 2020

J. Asian Rural Stud.

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Rural development is a social process. It involves local community in all stages of development. Community dialog is a means for facilitating community involvement in determining a development direction, potential development plan and development sus-tainability in the future. Frequently, local community is considered as the development target. This position puts them just being development watchers, spectators, silent and passive recipients. Moreover, these silent roles make them remain unempowered since they do not know how to determine their future, how to take part in collective decision and feel being neglected. This study examines potentials of community involvement in dialog. A qualitative research paradigm is adopted. The data are collected byrecording, transcribing and analyzing community dialog at Klagen, Nganjuk, Jawa Timur. The study finds that community dialog offers considerable potentials. The first potential of community dialog is generating local community commitment, awareness, sense of belongingness and supportive character to build their own homeland. These positive development psychological states,characters and ethos are soft human dimensions which can be critical drivers in rural development. The second is creation of local knowledge and scientific knowledge joint enabling innovation and collective learning process. This joint-knowledge allows the combination of local wisdom and scientific insight. The third is building shared or collective development vision and plan. This plan and vision allow the development prioritizing process and development of rural strength, potential competitive advantage and resource building. The fourth is expanding rural networking and exercising rural people capacity to build wider internal and external social relationship.

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Participatory action research in an Amazon protected area: Lessons for community psychology in Northern Brazil

Calegare

Higuchi

2018

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Participatory action research (PAR) in rural Amazon communities in protected areas (PA) should be a requisite element of community psychology (CP) in Northern Brazil, because it allies investigation with action strategies appropriate to the specificities and problems of those rural communities. In this context, this article intends to promote reflection about PAR carried out in the communities of Auati‐Paraná Extractive Reserve, a federal PA of sustainable use in the western Amazon rainforest, and to highlight elements to community psychologists to solve issues faced by those rural Amazon communities. The PAR's aim was to help in the implementation of a sustainable development marquetry project that uses fallen wood resources and to monitor its psycho‐social‐environmental impact. We present and discuss the PAR's trajectory and its critical points for a CP approach in an Amazon PA context: group work, articulations, disagreements, and political negotiations between partners that permeate the PA's management and environmental governance in Amazon, despite the unexpected outcome of the marquetry project. We emphasize the critical engagement, committed praxis, and political role of CP in PA contexts, necessary for CP in Northern Brazil.

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Contributions to group work and to the management of collective processes in extension and rural development

Cited by 24 publications

References 48 publications

Trust formation in agri-food institutional support networks

Trust formation in agri-food institutional support networks

Why We Should Talk? The Potentials of Community Dialog in Grounding an Integrated Rural Development

Participatory action research in an Amazon protected area: Lessons for community psychology in Northern Brazil

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