Agricultural Extension: Good Intentions and Hard Realities

By Jock R. Anderson, G. Feder. 2004

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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New Challenges in Agricultural Advisory Services from a Research Perspective: A Literature Review, Synthesis and Research Agenda (2012, background): “In addition to these examples, advisory services provided through contract farming have been documented widely (Anderson and Feder, 2004; Rivera and Zijp, 2002).”
Evaluating the impact of agricultural extension on farms' performance in Crete: a nonneutral stochastic frontier approach (2007, background): “recent study (Anderson and Feder, 2003) highlights the efficiency gains from various extensions modalities.”
Agriculture and food security in selected countries in Sub-Saharan Africa: diversity in trends and opportunities (2011, background): “The impact on agricultural productivity of extension has in general been modest in the developing world and in SSA in particular (Anderson and Feder 2004).”
Farmers' information needs and search behaviors: Case study in Tamil Nadu, India (2012, background): “This has important implications for extension programs, where information failures in public sector extension systems has reduced extension impact (Anderson and Feder 2007; Anderson and Feder, 2004), because of limited feedback and reach to farmers reducing content relevance.”
The Acquisition and Diffusion of Knowledge: The Case of Pest Management Training in Farmer Field Schools, Indonesia (2004, background): “Financial problems are derived, in part, from inherent incentive, bureaucratic, and political challenges that affect most public extension systems, and that produce a mixed record of performance (Anderson and Feder, 2004).”
The Rise and Fall of Training and Visit Extension: An Asian Mini-Drama With an African Epilogue (2006, background): “An explanation of their support for extension projects, focusing on extension systems at the national level (or large sub national units) is provided by Anderson and Feder (2004). Often a small pilot or a small component within another project, with heavy supervision or other conducive circumstances”
Farmers’ perceptions of a ‘push–pull’ technology for control of cereal stemborers and Striga weed in western Kenya (2008, background): “This has been partly due to weaknesses inherent in the technologies themselves prompting low adoption rates by the farmers for both biological and socio-economic reasons, and overall weaknesses in the extension delivery methods (Kamau et al., 2000; Anderson and Feder, 2004).”
Review of agricultural extension in India: Are farmers' information needs being met? (2010, methodology): “This framework was used by Anderson and Feder (2004) to review T&V extension, decentralization, feefor-service and privatized extension, and farmer field schools.”
Seeing is Believing? Evidence from an Extension Network Experiment (2014, neutral): “These substantive investments are seldom supported by causal evidence regarding their effectiveness as a whole, or of a particular modality (Anderson and Feder, 2004).”