Rural extension services
By Jock R. Anderson, G. Feder. 2003
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The authors analyze the considerations that lead policymakers to undertake extension investments as a key public responsibility, as well as the complex set of factors and intra-agency incentives that explain why different extension systems'performance vary. The authors provide a conceptual framework outlining farmers'demand for information, the welfare economic characterizations of extension services, and the organizational and political attributes that govern the performance of extension systems. They use the conceptual framework to examine several extension modalities and to analyze their likely and actual effectiveness. Specifically, the modalities reviewed include"training and visit"extension, decentralized systems,"fee-for-service"and privatized extension, and farmer-field-schools. The authors also discuss methodological issues pertaining to the assessment of extension outcomes and review the empirical literature on extension impact. They emphasize the efficiency gains that can come from locally decentralized delivery systems with incentive structures based largely on private provision that in most poorer countries is still publicly-funded. In wealthier countries, and for particular higher income farmer groups, extension systems will likely evolve into fee-for-service organizations.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Information Systems
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- Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya (2008, unknown): “The literature on agricultural extension services, reviewed by Birkhaeuser et al. (1991) and Anderson and Feder (2003), and on technology adoption, reviewed by Feder et al. (1985) stress that both data quality and methodological issues are important qualifiers to the prevailing evidence in favor of…”
- Effect of Agricultural Extension Program on Smallholders' Farm Productivity: Evidence from Three Peasant Associations in the Highlands of Ethiopia (2013, background): “According to Anderson and Feder (2003) productivity improvements are only possible when there is a gap between actual and potential productivity.”
- Mainstreaming Gender Sensitivity in Cash Crop Market Supply Chains (2014, background): “Agricultural extension services are an important instrument for the provision of information on new technologies and crops (Anderson and Feder, 2003; Evenson, 2001, and; Doss and Morris, 2001).”