Advancements in Agricultural Development

🎥 A message from the AAD Editorial Team! Following the release of our latest special issue, the editors reflect on the 2025 AAD Symposium & the scholarship that emerged. 📺 Watch the video: loom.ly/FTQsxOw 📘 Special issue: loom.ly/uZaAIOc #AgDevResearch

🌍 Meet AAD Editorial Board member Dr. Jim Kinsella from @ucddublin! With global experience from Africa to Ireland, his work focuses on rural development, ag extension, social farming & on-farm innovation. 🔗 loom.ly/qhar-dM #AgEd #RuralDevelopment #AgExtension #GlobalAg

🌾 AAD Article Spotlight I Producers’ Adoption Behaviors for Precision Agriculture Technologies to Improve Nitrogen Use Efficiency Diffusion of Innovations to explore adoption of N-Rich Strips & SBNRC in wheat. Key insight: perception matters. 🔗 doi.org/10.37433/aad.v3i3.20…

🎧 Listen to this Google Notebook LM Audio Overview of "Farmers’ Motivation for Learning and Developing New Skills." 🧠 Hear what AI learned and discussed from the study. 🔗 Listen: loom.ly/LOd-OU8 💬 What do you think about the AI convo? #AIinResearch #FarmLeadership

New AAD publication! Findings: 🌱 Farmers w/ strong self-leadership skills are more motivated to learn + grow. 🌱 Gender plays a key role in motivation to develop new skills. 🌱 Insights for targeted extension education. doi.org/10.37433/aad.v6i2.56… #Extension #FarmLeadership #SDG4

🌍 Meet AAD Editorial Board member Dr. Craig Edwards from @okstate! His work focuses on global ag ed, food entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa, and using change theory to improve teaching & communication. 🔗 loom.ly/qhar-dM #AgEd #GlobalAg #ZeroHunger #AADJournal

🌱 AAD Article Spotlight I Examining Level of School Garden Integration Authors studied Georgia elementary ag teachers’ use of gardens. Teachers leaned on hands-on tasks like taste tests but struggled with volunteer involvement post-COVID. doi.org/10.37433/aad.v4i1.28… #SchoolGardens

🌱 Meet Dr. Ataharul Chowdhury, AAD Editorial Board member from @UofGuelph! From a family farm in Bangladesh to global research in sustainable ag & rural dev, he brings rich international experience to AAD. loom.ly/qhar-dM #AgEd #GlobalAg #AADJournal

🌱AAD Article Spotlight I Factors relating to agriculture teachers’ perceived use of instructional methods A survey found demonstration, cooperative learning, experiments & field trips were the most engaging and effective methods. doi.org/10.37433/aad.v3i4.23… #StudentEngagement

🌱 Meet Dr. Sarah Cardey, AAD Editorial Board member from @UniofReading (UK)! She brings expertise in ag comm, rural dev & gender equity to Advances in Agricultural Development. 🔗 loom.ly/qhar-dM #AgDevResearch #WomenInAg #AgComm #RuralDev