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Improved crop health, diversification and productivity

Chief of Agronomy (Pailin PDAFF) Sophanara Phan, Senior Project Researcher Panhaleak Chay, and Dr Van Touch reflect on some of the outcomes they have seen as a result of their engagement with farmers focusing on field crop monitoring and record-keeping of farm inputs and practices. Mrs Srey Mom is an upland farmer residing in Ta […]

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Improved financial management in farming

Senior Project Researcher Panhaleak Chay, Chief of Agronomy (Pailin PDAFF) Sophanara Phan and Dr Van Touch reflect on some of the outcomes they have seen as a result of their engagement with farmers focusing on field crop monitoring and record-keeping of farm inputs and practices. Mrs Hiep Sophat is a lowland farmer living in Phnom […]

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Co-Design Workshop at National University of Battambang

15 local agricultural extension organisations participated in a co-design workshop facilitated by the Next Generation Agricultural Extension Project: Social relations for practice change. In this blog post, we share the results from this workshop, what we learned and next steps for the project. After analysis of the household census, we identified six distinct clusters of […]

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Early career researchers developing key skills

Lita Mom and Pherom Song first became involved with the Next Generation Agricultural Extension project in July 2022 when they became employed as research project officers at Partners for Rural Development (PRD). PRD is responsible for all in-country data collection. Lita and Pherom work in a team of 8 research project officers. Since Lita joined […]

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Photo Diary

In 2022, Dr Ariane Utomo introduced a photo diary method to accompany the data collection process of the household census (Activity 2) for the Next Generation Agricultural Extension: social relations for practice change project. This method was introduced to develop the critical thinking skills of our research project officers in terms of how we as […]

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February Field Trip

Associate Professor Brian Cook, Dr Van Touch and Dr Caitlin Finlayson made a 10-day field trip to Cambodia, in February, 2023. This field trip was part of the project Next Generation Agricultural Extension: Social relations for practice change. The trip involved meeting with project partners including Macquarie University, National University of Battambang (NUBB), Partners for […]