scholarly journals Building Self-reliance: A Framework to Evaluate Smallholder Coffee Farmers’ Pursuit of Commercialization

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 32-48
Author(s):  
Colby Silvert ◽  
John Diaz ◽  
Laura Warner ◽  
T. Grady Roberts
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Intrinsic Factors ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
External Facilitator ◽  
Coffee Farmers ◽  
Statistical Relationships

his study examines the application of a self-reliance framework for practitioners and evaluators to better understand the capacities and intrinsic factors impacting smallholder coffee farmers’ commercialization behaviors. We surveyed 40 smallholder coffee producers in Peru using a quantitative instrument. Data were analyzed to determine if statistical relationships exist between farmers’ self-reliance (measured via knowledge and skills, attitudes, and aspirations) and their commercialization behaviors. Findings indicate the self-reliance framework effectively illustrates relationships between farmers’ aspirations, knowledge and skills and their commercialization behaviors, while future, additional studies are needed to better measure and understand the role of commercialization-related attitudes. Practitioners can leverage the study’s findings by using a self-reliance framework to infer farmers’ likeliness to pursue sustainable commercialization practices and align their trainings and design interventions based on evaluation findings. The conceptual self-reliance framework is the first of its kind applied for smallholder coffee commercialization. The findings demonstrate that self-reliance concepts employed recently in other contexts may potentially be used similarly by extension and development facilitators. Keywords: coffee, commercialization, external facilitator, Peru, self-reliance, smallholder

scholarly journals The Role of Universities of Georgia in Providing Continuing Education Courses of Local Self-Government Public Servants

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Maka Kordzadze
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
The Self ◽  
Government Reform ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Education Courses

The present-day rate of development of the society and technologies in any sphere requires from the employee constant raising of qualification and gaining new knowledge and skills – continuous professional development. Life-long learning, continuing education is equally important compared with initial degree education. This leads to the necessity of ensurng continuing education in especially significant areas for the country in which the country’s  leading universities have to be actively involved. Provision of continuing education for local self- government public servants in recent years in the context of the self - government reform gained special actuality in Georgia. The aim of the article is to underline the significant role of universities of Georgia in developing and providing continuing education courses to public servants of local self-government and identifying those measures which will promote active involvement of universities in this process.  

The Self-Reliance of Member on Tea Smallholder Farmer Groups in West Java Province, Indonesia

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kralawi Sita ◽  
Sunarru Samsi Hariadi ◽  
Subejo
Keyword(s):  
Path Analysis ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Smallholder Farmer ◽  
West Java ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Market Opportunities ◽  
Farmer Groups

The existence of tea smallholder farmer groups as a social entity has an important and strategic role in realizing the self-reliance of its members on tea farming activity. This study aimed at determining the self-reliance of members on tea smallholder farmer groups in West Java Province, and the factors that influence toward the self-reliance of members on tea smallholder farmer groups in West Java Province. The study used mixed method approach with sequential explanantory strategy. Proportional stratified random sampling with 128 members of tea smallholders farmer group (farmers) or 20% of the sample population with 643 members (farmers) sampling method was used. Quantitative data were analyzed by using path analysis, while qualitative data were analyzed by using triangulation of sources. The study showed that the level of the member's self-reliance of tea smallholder farmer groups as a whole in decision making, initiatives creative and innovative, and solving problems related to the tea farming is in moderate category. The self-reliance of members needs to improve, especially on the initiative, creativity and innovation. From path analysis, member's self-reliance of tea smallholder farmer groups were affected from strongest to weakest by role of tea farmer groups, extension, the availability of capital, farming experience, age, land size, market opportunities, and work motivation. The self-reliance of members on tea smallholder farmer groups most effectively can be enhanced through the improving the role of tea smallholder farmer groups.

The Role of Drugs in Self-Care

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Joel Coons ◽  
William F. McGhan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Illness Behavior ◽  
The Self ◽  
Care Process ◽  
Self Medication ◽  
Over The Counter ◽  
Self Reliance

This article provides an overview of self-care and explores the role of self-medication within the self-care process. A model of illness behavior is described which includes the various courses of action that consumers may undertake when they experience a symptom or deviation from health. Reasons behind the trend toward self-care are presented along with information on the extent of this phenomenon. Self-medication is described as a response to symptoms which involves the use of nonprescription or over-the-counter (OTC) medications. It has been estimated that at least seventy-five percent of all illnesses and injuries are initially treated through self-care and over-the-counter (OTC) medications. It is suggested that the re-emergence of these forms of self-reliance is allowing individuals to retrieve some of the control that has been assumed by health-care professionals.

scholarly journals The role of the school in promoting the value of striving against the self-reliance of the secondary students from the perspective of the teachers in the city of Riyadh

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Ibrahim bin Rees
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
School Curriculum ◽  
The Self ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
Random Manner ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The City ◽  
School Activity

This study aimed to reveal the reality of the role of the school in promoting the value of striving against the self-reliance of the secondary students, and the detection of obstacles to be strengthened, and identify the ways proposed to reinforcement it.The researcher used descriptive approach (scanning), survey tool to collect data and information, and distributed them to a sample of (445) a teacher, by 6.9 from the original community, they chose the stratified random manner, the most prominent of the results of the study: 1- Across the role of the school in promoting the value of striving against the self-reliance of the secondary students on average (3.50) the assessment (high) according to the first solution dimensions of the role of the teacher in promoting self-striving against the average (3.79), followed by after the role of the school curriculum at an average (3.54), both the assessment (high) and thirdly the role of school management the average (3.37), and finally the role of the school activity the average (3.16) Both the estimation (medium). 2- The axis of impediments to the performance of the school for its role in promoting the value of striving against the self-reliance of the secondary students, on average (3.53), the estimation (high), is the most prominent in the "overcrowding in classrooms with students." 3- The focus of the proposed ways to activate the role of the school in promoting the value of striving against the self-reliance of the secondary students, on average (3.81), the estimation (high), is the most prominent in the "Investing religious seasons in stimulating the students to wrestle with the self.

scholarly journals Empowerment of Farmers: The Role of Actor and the Persistence of Coffee Farmers in Rural Pattongko, Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Hasdiansyah ◽  
Sugito Sugito ◽  
Yoyon Suryono
Keyword(s):  
Situated Learning ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Coffee Farmers ◽  
Document Review ◽  
Depth Interviews

Many farmers' empowerment has failed because the process is rigid, instructive, and uses too many techniques that are not following the local conditions of the community. Therefore, the empowerment process must be improved to be able to make farmers empowered and independent. For this reason, it is necessary to explore how the learning process and the involvement of actor in the empowerment process are needed. The subjects of this study consisted of eight farmers and one empowerment actor. The method used is qualitative through in-depth interviews, observation, and document review. All data were transcribed, organized, then analyzed to produce conclusions. The findings of this study include: (1) Empowerment of coffee farmers is carried out with a situated learning strategy so that the knowledge and skills of farmers are easily developed; (2) Empowerment actor encourage farmer participation through the use of coffee farmers' social networks so that social solidarity is realized among coffee farmers; (3) The habit of coffee farmers supports the empowerment process and is free to explore their ideas; (4) Technology supports empowerment and makes the learning process more attractive to coffee farmers.

Exploring Cancer Pain Self-Management Needs and Preferences: A Meta-Ethnography

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232199897
Author(s):  
Alice Anderson ◽  
Angela Starkweather ◽  
Xiaomei Cong ◽  
Kim Kyounghae ◽  
Michelle Judge ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Pain ◽  
The Self ◽  
Health Care Practitioner ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Practical Implications

Self-management of chronic disease and related symptoms provides a framework for understanding the contextual factors that influence self-management knowledge and skills that patients and families require to manage their condition on a day-to-day basis. The management of cancer pain is a significant issue for patients and families, and their experience can provide insight on cancer pain self-management support needs and preferences. A meta-synthesis of 20 qualitative research articles on self-management of cancer pain was conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the self-management support needs of patients with cancer pain. Noblit and Hare’s meta-ethnographic model was used. The meta-synthesis resulted in increased understanding of the needs and preferences for self-management support of cancer pain and the role of the health care practitioner. Practical implications are presented.

The role of the self in creative expression

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Donnelly ◽  
Radmila Prislin ◽  
Ryan Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Creative Expression ◽  
The Self

The role of the self in organizational justice

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Ramona Bobocel ◽  
Russell E. Johnson ◽  
Joel Brockner
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Justice ◽  
The Self
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