Agricultural and rural extension worldwide: options for institutional reform in the developing countries.

By William McLeod Rivera, M. Qamar, L. Crowder. 2002

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Challenges Facing Agricultural Extension Agents: A Case Study from South‐western Ethiopia (2004, background): “A cursory survey of the implementation of the PEA, as a pilot project, in the African continent shows that it was used in the development and spreading of soil conservation practices in Zimbabwe # African Development Bank 2004 (Hagmann et al., 1999); in pasture management technology generation and d”
The Rise and Fall of Training and Visit Extension: An Asian Mini-Drama With an African Epilogue (2006, background): “Examples of modifications in the design were cited by a number of observers: Roberts (1989) pointed out that in Sudan extension agents continued also their duties as supervisors for the irrigation system.”
Dial “A” for Agriculture: A Review of Information and Communication Technologies for Agricultural Extension in Developing Countries - Working Paper 269 (2011, unknown): “A worldwide review of public extension systems by Rivera, Qamar and Crowder (2001) found that many agricultural extension systems were barely functioning, related to the following factors: • Limited scale and sustainability : In countries where the farm sector is comprised of small-scale farmers,…”