Farmer-Led Extension

by Scarborough, Venessa; Killough, Scott; Johnson, Debra A.; Farrington, John

ISBN13:
9781853394171
ISBN10:
1853394173
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 1997-11-01
Publisher: Practical Action Pub
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Summary

Conventional, government-run agricultural extension services have notably failed to deliver improved agricultural productivity and standards of living in many parts of the developing world. This is especially true in remote and marginal upland areas, and even in the lowlands conventional extension approaches have been critized for promoting chemical-intensive, standardized, and often inappropriate packages of farming practices. This is the first book to focus on farmer-led extension, drawing on the experiences of over 70 farmers, community workers, NGO staff, researchers and policy makers from throughout the world.

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Introduction	p. 1
Challenges to agricultural extension in the twenty-first century	p. 13
Extension experiences in agriculture and natural resource management in the 1980s and 1990s	p. 23
Origins and examples of farmer-to-farmer extension	p. 35
Principles and methods in farmer-to-farmer extension	p. 45
Roles and responsibilities in farmer-to-farmer extension	p. 61
Issues and problems in farmer-to-farmer extension	p. 73
Farmer field schools	p. 91
Problem census/problem solving	p. 107
NGO-government collaboration	p. 115
Other approaches to farmer-led extension	p. 133
Impact assessment and evaluation	p. 159
Reaching more farmers	p. 175
Lessons and conclusions	p. 195
App. 1: Workshop participants	p. 201
App. 2: Papers cited and summarized	p. 206
References	p. 210
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