This review of actual and potential agricultural extension performance highlights the complex interlinkages between agency characteristics, a faulty technological base, the larger bureaucratic environment, and the constraints imposed by increasingly negative "development" trends.
An urgent problem facing the world today is the crisis facing the African continent. I though that you might be interested to read the Challenges for Sub-Saharan Africa. The themes of his statement are: the economic policy adjustments required to achieve long-term growth; the mounting pressures...
2016-01-01 More than 200 million people living in dryland regions of Sub-Saharan Africa make their living from agriculture. Most are exposed to weather shocks, especially drought, that can decimate their incomes, destroy their assets, and plunge them into a poverty trap from which it is difficult to emerge....