Resources Tagged: Agriculture Extension

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  1. Case Study: Global Websites – Improving Access for Global Agricultural Extension

    2016-01-01 ECHO exists to reduce hunger and improve lives through agricultural training and resources. Working through the internet and regional impact centers around the world, ECHO connects small-scale farmers, and those working to eliminate world hunger, with essential resources and each other. These...
    Information and Co... Agriculture Extension Digital Development Digital Toolbox Digital Resource

  2. Growing Multipurpose Trees on Small Farms, Module 8: Principles of Effective Extension

    1992-01-01 This manual aims to provide readily-understandable technical information to help extension workers respond to farmers' questions on how to grow and manage trees for householduses or for local markets. Although the manual is, for the most part, a technical reference, it must be emphasized that...
    Small Farm Develop... Useful Tree Agriculture Extension Multipurpose trees Asia

  3. Farmers' Experiments: Creating Local Knowledge

    This book seeks to contribute to ongoing debates about different approaches to agricultural technology development and transfer. One central theme in these debates relates to the value and potential contribution of what is widely referred to as 'indigenous technical knowlege," or local knowledge...
    Agriculture Extension Africa Agriculture Resources On-Farm Research Citizen Participation Small Farm Develop...

  4. Agriculture Extension with Community-Level Workers: Lessons and Practices from Community Health and Community Animal Health Programs

    Key Resource
    2015-11-04 Active learning and exchange of knowledge are key to farmer adoption of beneficial agricultural innovations. Community health worker (CHW) and community animal health worker (CAHW) programs have led to a rich body of knowledge about extension, much of which is applicable to efforts aimed towards...
    MEAS Agriculture Extension Community Development CHW CAHW Community Health

  5. Farmer Engagement in Agriculture Extension

    2015-08-05 Good intentions and viable solutions will have little impact unless we engage with farmers in ways that are meaningful to them. Farmers put a great deal of confidence in what they learn from fellow farmers’ experiences, and they are more likely to trust what they see over what they hear....
    MEAS Agriculture Extension

  6. Amaranth Potential for the Highlands of Southeast Asia in View of Lessons Learned in East Africa

    2009-04-01 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #1 Based on the experiences of CRWRC and its collaborating partnering organizations in East Africa, the introduction of grain and vegetable amaranths shows real potential for the highlands of Southeast Asia. Grain amaranth should be seen and managed as a high...
    Drought Tolerant P... Dark Green Leafy V... Amaranth Health and Nutrition Nutrition Grain Crops Agriculture Extension Asia

  7. Climate Change and the Role of Development Workers in Helping Rural Agriculture Communities Adapt

    2015-04-30 This document draws from the MEAS brief #3Adaptation under the New Normal of Climate Change: The Future of Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services. Written for extension and advisory service providers, the MEAS brief contains insights helpful to practitioners working to develop strategies...
    Climate Change MEAS Agriculture Extension

  8. Linking Smallholder Farmers to Markets

    2015-04-28 Recent growth in global commodity prices, as well as expansion of domesticand export markets among emerging economies, translates to new and better opportunities for smallholder farmers in the developing world to access these markets. Increased production of high value horticulture crops in...
    Markets Market Opportunities MEAS Agriculture Extension

  9. Analyzing and Supporting Gender Responsive Value Chains

    2015-08-05 The complexity of the global food system creates a diverse group of actors ranging from smallholders to large corporations involved in the agriculture sector. Each of the many actors in an agriculture value chain has different needs, objectives, strengths and weaknesses. With women accounting for...
    MEAS Agriculture Extension Gender Equality

  10. Lessons from Small Farm Resource Centers

    2015-07-13 Based on a MEAS paper entitled, The Current and Future Roles of Small Farm Resource Centers in Extension and Advisory Services: Synthesis Report from Seven Case Studies in Southeast Asia, this document highlights key take-a-ways of an assessment by ECHO of seven SFRCs in Southeast Asia. Through...
    MEAS Agriculture Extension