From Best Practice to Best Fit: A Framework for Designing and Analyzing Pluralistic Agricultural Advisory Services Worldwide
By Regina Birner, K. Davis, John Pender, E. Nkonya, P. Anandajayasekeram, J. Ekboir, A. Mbabu, D. Spielman, D. Horna, S. Benin and 1 more. 2009
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Subfields: Finance, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Strategy and Management
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- Information networks that generate economic value: a study on clusters of adopters of new or improved technologies and practices among oil palm growers in Mexico. (2015, background): “…different economic impacts and 2) it aims to add to the literature in which calls have been made for more research on ‘best-fit’ extension approaches (Birner et al., 2009; Kilelu et al., 2014) and composition of information networks (Isaac, 2012) by showing how such differences in networks should…”
- Leveling with friends: Social networks and Indian farmers' demand for a technology with heterogeneous benefits (2015, background): “Farmers frequently cite other farmers as their most trusted and reliable source of information regarding new technologies (Anderson and Feder, 2007; Birner et al., 2009).”
- Communicating complexity: Integrated assessment of trade-offs concerning soil fertility management within African farming systems to support innovation and development (2011, background): “Indeed the term ‘best-fits’ was first used in relation to agricultural advisory services (Birner et al., 2006).”
- Functions and limitations of farmer cooperatives as innovation intermediaries: Findings from China (2014, background): “This indicates that besides public extension serviceswhich could take such coordination as anewrole (cf. Alex et al., 2004; Birner et al., 2009; Christoplos, 2010; Rivera and Sulaiman, 2009; Rivera, 2011; World Bank, 2012) also FC could take this role (following Jia and Huang, 2011; Poulton et al.”
- In-depth assessment of the public agricultural extension system of Ethiopia and recommendations for improvement (2010, background): “There are four conditions that should be examined to determine best-fit solutions: the policy environment; the capacity of (potential) extension service providers; the type of farming systems and the market access of farm households; and the nature of the local communities, including their ability t”
- New Challenges in Agricultural Advisory Services from a Research Perspective: A Literature Review, Synthesis and Research Agenda (2012, methodology): “To incorporate our definition of advisory services in the conduct of our analysis, we use the concept of ‘advisory system’ (Birner et al., 2009), which takes into account all of the actors involved in the provision of advice.”
- Strengthening Agricultural Extension and Advisory Systems: Procedures for Assessing, Transforming, and Evaluating Extension Systems (2010, background): “One more in-depth analytical approach, within an agricultural innovations system (AIS) framework, is outlined in Birner et al. (2006). Another option, which is an implicit theme throughout this book, is to recognize that specific advisory services, such as technology transfer, will increasingly be p”