@article{Ibo:263426,
      recid = {263426},
      author = { Ibo, Zimmermann and  Theofilus, Shiimi and  Alexander,  Meroro and  Lucia, Kafidi and  Solomon, Mbai},
      title = {Contributing towards sustainable farming through synergy  between student training and action research with emerging  farmers},
      journal = {African Journal of Rural Development (AFJRD)},
      address = {2017-03-24},
      number = {1978-2017-1998},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {A learning approach has evolved since 1992 at the Namibia  University of Science and Technology (formerly the  Polytechnic of Namibia) to expose students to hands-on  extension work, while encouraging farmers to experiment  with sustainable production methods and explore business  opportunities. All second and third-year students of the  Agriculture programme are taken together on two visits per  year to a farming community, often on a resettlement farm.  The courses involved are Agricultural Extension,  Agribusiness Management, Agricultural Land Management and  Agroecology. For each course students undertake particular  activities before, during and after the visits. Students  are divided into groups, with each group allocated a a  broad thematic area of focus to ensure integration.  Examples of thematic areas of interest are water; grazing;  trees and bushes; livestock; crops; gardening; energy;  transport; food storage; value addition; marketing. During  the first visit many of the students facilitate the  initiation of small-scale trials to be managed by farmers.  These trials are then jointly evaluated during the second  visit about two months later.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/263426},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.263426},
}