Purpose: The paper aims at better understanding the micro-foundations of current institutional changes in agricultural knowledge and innovation systems (AKIS). Design: A survey of 98 farmers and interviews with 37 advice providers in south-western France were conducted to analyse the ways in which farmers combine different sources of advice…

Describes the historical and social events which accompanied the rise of the agricultural advisor in France. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Examines the historical and social context of the rise of the militant trade unionist, and his role in French Society. (Text is in French.) (AM)

Discusses the use of higher education for social defense, moral improvement, and working-class acculturation in 19th-century France. (RM)

The conference organized by the European Productivity Agency in September 1960 and subsequent meetings arranged by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development gave the representatives of workers, employers, administrators, and research workers of many European countries the opportunity to exchange information on the knowledge…

French farms have to adapt quickly in an economic and social context that is in profound change. For this, advice procedures must themselves be reconsidered. The aim of this work was to characterize the advice practices in beef-cattle systems in Creuse and define farmers' and advisers' requirements according to future methods of providing advice.…