Impacts of farming advisory videos hinge on the goals of extension actors that share them
This study examined how and why extension workers shared farming videos with farmers, revealing divergent appropriation patterns and their implications for digitization in agriculture. 294 extension workers in Bihar (India) were asked to circulate three wheat agronomy videos with farmers. Extension...
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| author | Coggins, Sam Munshi, Sugandh Smith, Jeremy Ingle Yadav, Anil Kumar Poonia, Shishpal P. Patil, Shridhar Singh, Narendra Kumar Sawarn, A. Ireland, D.C. Singh, Deepak Kumar Liu, J. Glover, Dominic Sherpa, Sonam Sohane, Ravindra Kumar Craufurd, Peter |
| author_browse | Coggins, Sam Craufurd, Peter Glover, Dominic Ireland, D.C. Liu, J. Munshi, Sugandh Patil, Shridhar Poonia, Shishpal P. Sawarn, A. Sherpa, Sonam Singh, Deepak Kumar Singh, Narendra Kumar Smith, Jeremy Ingle Sohane, Ravindra Kumar Yadav, Anil Kumar |
| author_facet | Coggins, Sam Munshi, Sugandh Smith, Jeremy Ingle Yadav, Anil Kumar Poonia, Shishpal P. Patil, Shridhar Singh, Narendra Kumar Sawarn, A. Ireland, D.C. Singh, Deepak Kumar Liu, J. Glover, Dominic Sherpa, Sonam Sohane, Ravindra Kumar Craufurd, Peter |
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| description | This study examined how and why extension workers shared farming videos with farmers, revealing divergent appropriation patterns and their implications for digitization in agriculture. 294 extension workers in Bihar (India) were asked to circulate three wheat agronomy videos with farmers. Extension workers' circulation of these videos was observed using link tracking, phone surveys, and follow-up interviews. Results were analyzed using a novel analytic framework based in affordance theory. Extension workers varied widely in how much, how, and why they shared the farming videos. This variation was underpinned by extension workers' differing incentives and goals. In other words, extension workers heterogeneously appropriated-rather than homogeneously deployed-the practice of sharing farming videos. Some but not all of these appropriations were desirable from the perspective of service managers. For theory, extension workers' appropriations of farming videos demonstrate that prevalent conceptualizations of digital agricultural technologies do not account for the adaptation of these technologies by farmers and other actors in agricultural innovation systems. For digital agriculture evaluators, the findings caution against the prevalent focus on averaging effects of interventions and highlight the need to examine the variability of these effects within and across interventions. For extension service managers, the findings emphasize the importance of engaging extension actors with farmer-aligned incentives and goals. This study was limited in focusing on the video-sharing behaviors of human extension actors and not on algorithmic extension actors, like YouTube or farming advisory chatbots powered by large language models. However, the findings have implications for both: just as human actors variably appropriate digital tools, algorithmic extension actors also embed implicit goals that shape how agricultural information circulates. Future research should examine the goals and behaviors of these algorithmic actors that have increasing influence in agricultural innovation systems. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1789762025-12-17T22:55:34Z Impacts of farming advisory videos hinge on the goals of extension actors that share them Coggins, Sam Munshi, Sugandh Smith, Jeremy Ingle Yadav, Anil Kumar Poonia, Shishpal P. Patil, Shridhar Singh, Narendra Kumar Sawarn, A. Ireland, D.C. Singh, Deepak Kumar Liu, J. Glover, Dominic Sherpa, Sonam Sohane, Ravindra Kumar Craufurd, Peter digital agriculture agricultural extension agricultural innovation systems audiovisual aids advisory services This study examined how and why extension workers shared farming videos with farmers, revealing divergent appropriation patterns and their implications for digitization in agriculture. 294 extension workers in Bihar (India) were asked to circulate three wheat agronomy videos with farmers. Extension workers' circulation of these videos was observed using link tracking, phone surveys, and follow-up interviews. Results were analyzed using a novel analytic framework based in affordance theory. Extension workers varied widely in how much, how, and why they shared the farming videos. This variation was underpinned by extension workers' differing incentives and goals. In other words, extension workers heterogeneously appropriated-rather than homogeneously deployed-the practice of sharing farming videos. Some but not all of these appropriations were desirable from the perspective of service managers. For theory, extension workers' appropriations of farming videos demonstrate that prevalent conceptualizations of digital agricultural technologies do not account for the adaptation of these technologies by farmers and other actors in agricultural innovation systems. For digital agriculture evaluators, the findings caution against the prevalent focus on averaging effects of interventions and highlight the need to examine the variability of these effects within and across interventions. For extension service managers, the findings emphasize the importance of engaging extension actors with farmer-aligned incentives and goals. This study was limited in focusing on the video-sharing behaviors of human extension actors and not on algorithmic extension actors, like YouTube or farming advisory chatbots powered by large language models. However, the findings have implications for both: just as human actors variably appropriate digital tools, algorithmic extension actors also embed implicit goals that shape how agricultural information circulates. Future research should examine the goals and behaviors of these algorithmic actors that have increasing influence in agricultural innovation systems. 2025-12 2025-12-17T22:55:34Z 2025-12-17T22:55:34Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178976 en Open Access Springer Coggins, S., Munshi, S., Smith, J., Yadav, A. K., Poonia, S. P., Patil, S., Singh, N. K., Sawarn, A., Ireland, D. C., Singh, D. K., Liu, J., Glover, D., Sherpa, S. R., Sohane, R. K., & Craufurd, P. (2025). Impacts of farming advisory videos hinge on the goals of extension actors that share them. *Agriculture and Human Values*, 42(4), 3021-3039. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-025-10797-y |
| spellingShingle | digital agriculture agricultural extension agricultural innovation systems audiovisual aids advisory services Coggins, Sam Munshi, Sugandh Smith, Jeremy Ingle Yadav, Anil Kumar Poonia, Shishpal P. Patil, Shridhar Singh, Narendra Kumar Sawarn, A. Ireland, D.C. Singh, Deepak Kumar Liu, J. Glover, Dominic Sherpa, Sonam Sohane, Ravindra Kumar Craufurd, Peter Impacts of farming advisory videos hinge on the goals of extension actors that share them |
| title | Impacts of farming advisory videos hinge on the goals of extension actors that share them |
| title_full | Impacts of farming advisory videos hinge on the goals of extension actors that share them |
| title_fullStr | Impacts of farming advisory videos hinge on the goals of extension actors that share them |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impacts of farming advisory videos hinge on the goals of extension actors that share them |
| title_short | Impacts of farming advisory videos hinge on the goals of extension actors that share them |
| title_sort | impacts of farming advisory videos hinge on the goals of extension actors that share them |
| topic | digital agriculture agricultural extension agricultural innovation systems audiovisual aids advisory services |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/178976 |
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