Strengthening Agricultural Extension and Advisory Systems: Procedures for Assessing, Transforming, and Evaluating Extension Systems
By Riikka Rajalahti, B. Swanson. 2010
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The purpose of this paper is to provide information on how to transform and strengthen pluralistic agricultural extension and advisory systems in moving toward the broader goal of increasing farm income and improving rural livelihoods. The focus of this book is primarily on the technical knowledge, management skills, and information services that small-scale farm households will need to improve their livelihoods in the rapidly changing global economy. In addition, the book will also include information on how extension should help all types of farmers in dealing with escalating natural resource problems, including climate change. The primary focus of this paper will be a comparative analysis of different extension strategies, organizational models, institutional innovations, and resource constraints and how an extension system might be transformed and strengthened through specific policy and organizational changes as well as needed investments. This paper is organized into nine chapters. These chapters follow an institution building strategy used by many donors and governments as they seek to improve their extension system. The diagram in Figure one outlines these basic planning, implementation, and evaluation procedures that will be considered. The sections outlined below will provide a brief overview of the different chapters included in this paper.
Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science
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- Gender Differences in Access to Extension Services and Agricultural Productivity (2013, background): “…extension and rural education have been emphasised by development experts as crucial in achieving agricultural development, poverty reduction, and food security (Swanson, Bentz and Sofranko 1997; Dercon et al. 2007; Davis 2008; Swanson and Rajalahti 2010; Feder, Birner and Anderson 2011).”
- Adoption and income effects of agricultural extension in northern Ghana (2020, background): “According to Swanson and Rajalahti [6] , national agricultural development goals include maintaining national food security and improving rural livelihoods.”