Resources Tagged: Agriculture Extension

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  1. Effective Use of Workshops in Agriculture Extension

    2016-01-25 In EDN 127, we mentioned that a number of MEAS (Modernizing Extension and Advisory Services) documents were being summarized and distilled for ECHO’s audience. An article on Farmer Engagement in Agriculture Extension was shared in EDN 128, and we want to continue to highlight these articles as...
    MEAS Agriculture Extension

  2. Farmer Engagement in Agriculture Extension

    2015-07-23 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

  3. West African farmers benefit from in-field trainings

    2016-03-28 Training participants in Koaran, Burkina Faso are praising the qualities of local workshops held in their community. Located about 250km from the capital, Ouagadougou, this remote village is one that is benefitting from farmer-to-farmer instruction. Across West Africa, this educational style has...
    FFF Moringa Biogas Field Training Agriculture Extension West Africa

  4. Trying something new: Factors in farmer adoption or non-adoption of new practices

    2015-11-19 Small farmers around the world are cautious when making changes to the practices they use or the crops they grow; especially as their family’s food and income depend on the harvest. However with challenges such as decreasing soil fertility or erratic rainfall, they are increasingly willing to...
    Kitchen Gardens SRI SRI System Of Rice... Community Development Agriculture Extension

  5. Trying something new: Factors in farmer adoption or non-adoption of new practices

    Presented at the ECHO International Agriculture Conference 2015 Small farmers around the world are cautious when making changes to the practices they use or the crops they grow; especially as their family’s food and income depend on the harvest. However with challenges such as decreasing soil...
    Kitchen Gardens SRI SRI System Of Rice... Community Development Agriculture Extension

  6. Sustainable Agriculture Extension Manual for Eastern and Southern Africa

    Key Resource Sustainable Agriculture covers a wide range of topics: soil and water conservation, using organic matter to sustain soil fertility, pest management, cropping systems, livestock management, and many others. For agriculture to be sustainable, it must take into account not only the physical...
    Sustainable Agricu... Agriculture Extension East Africa

  7. Access Agriculture

    Key Resource
    ECHO Partner Our website hosts training videos in support of sustainable agriculture in developing countries. If you are interested in this, we hope you will find videos that will be of use to you and your partners. We have 14 Access Agriculture video categories under which you will find quality,...
    Digital Resource Library Video Training Agriculture Extension Garden

  8. Effective Extension Methods

    2017-01-20 What is extension? Traditionally extension has been an approach where information from researchers has been transferred to farmers through extension personnel. The information flow in that case was top down (from researchers to farmers). The assumption was that farmers lack knowledge and hence...
    Agriculture Extension Conservation Agric... Farmer Field Schools Participatory Lear...

  9. A Snapshot from Bangladesh: Building Farmer-Extension Relationships

    2017-04-25 With 160 million people living in an area the size of the US state of Georgia, cropland is not an overly abundant resource in the country of Bangladesh. In order to meet the ever growing needs of its population, it is not uncommon for farmers in this delta nation to produce 3 consecutive seasons...
    Green Manure Cover... Agriculture Extension Asia

  10. Lessons Learned from Agricultural Extension Best Practices

    2015-10-06 Speaker Bio: Paul E. McNamara is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and the Division of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he is a Visiting Member of the faculty of Njala University (Sierra Leone). McNamara...
    Agriculture Extension Asia