Digital Extension Services for Smallholdings: A Case Study of Uptake, Trust and Advice Adherence

Authors

  • Godelieve Casteleyn Centre for Rural Digital Services, Hesbaye Centre for Digital Agriculture, Waremme, Belgium Author
  • Ilmar Mikk-Saare Department of Rural Sociology, Sakala Institute of Agro-Informatics, Viljandi, Estonia Author
  • Cyprien Faverolles Department of Agronomy, Limagne Institute of Agricultural Data Science, Riom, France Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22664534

Keywords:

Digital Extension Services for Smallholdings; Agro-informatics; Precision agriculture; Evidence synthesis; On-farm technology

Abstract

Digital Extension Services for Smallholdings has moved quickly from a research idea to something a working farm can actually
use, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the current evidence for digital extension services for
smallholdings, covering the methodological, practical, governance and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely
settled and where farms and advisors are still largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks
better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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