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GFRAS - Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services

In a rapidly changing world, farmers need a package of innovations and services, in addition to continuous access to knowledge and information. Having all this under one roof and in a rural setting can greatly accelerate adoption of innovations and increase benefits to farmers. Farmer training centres have been initiated by many actors, under different forms; for example, Maisons Familiales Rurales1, Songhaï Centres,2 and Agribusiness Development Centres. These initiatives focus on training young individuals and preparing them for a career in agriculture. However, they are less useful in serving the wider farming community for large scale adoption of agricultural innovations. Therefore, new models of community-based extension are under development.

  1. AESA - Agricultural Extension in South Asia

    80% of South Asia's poor live in rural areas. Most depend on agriculture for their livelihood. Agricultural and rural development is key to eradicating poverty and creating conditions for sustainable and equitable growth. An effective and efficient extension and advisory service that offers a...
    Agricultural Exten... Asia

  2. AFAAS - African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services

    African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) is a continental platform for mutual learning and innovation among agricultural extension and advisory services providers across Africa. The AFAAS’ goal is to enhance utilization of improved knowledge and innovations for improving...
    East Africa West Africa

  3. APEN - Australasia-Pacific Extension Network

    APEN offers members: a forum for professionals to share knowledge, information, skills and experience across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific the opportunity to join a mentoring scheme to help you improveskills and abilities and a network which opens doors to future employment...
    Agricultural Exten... Asia

  4. APIRAS - Asia Pacific Island Rural Advisory Services

    APIRAS — the Asia-Pacific Islands Rural Advisory Services Network— was organized in 2011 to serve as a platform for networking, advocacy, and capacity building for agricultural extension and rural advisory services (RAS) professionals and institutions in the Asia-Pacific Islands Region. Together...
    Agricultural Exten... Asia

  5. CAC-FRAS Central Asia and Caucasus Forum for Rural Advisory Services

    A memberof GFRAS

  6. CAEPNet - Caribbean Agricultural Extension Providers Network

    The Caribbean Extension Provider's Network - CAEPNet is an organisation comprising of Extension service providers from the following countries in the region;Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia
    Agricultural Exten... Latin America and ...

  7. EUFRAS - European Forum for Farm and Rural Advisory Services

    EUFRAS is a European network and representative association of public and private rural and agricultural extension serviceswhich is aligned to the global representative body for advisory servicesGFRASwith associations set up in many other continents. Scope of EUFRAS: Common mandate to assist...
    Agricultural Exten...

  8. GFRAS - Global Good Practices

    Many see rural advisory services (RAS), also called ‘extension’, as indispensable in efforts to improve agricultural production in smallholder farms in developing countries. However, development specialists have lamented that, bogged by infrastructural and logistical challenges, traditional RAS,...
    Best Practices

  9. Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services

    The Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services GFRASis about enhancing the performance of advisory services so that they can better serve farm families and rural producers, thus contributing to improved livelihoods in rural areas and the sustainable reduction of hunger and poverty. Rural advisory...
    Rural Development

  10. Lessons Learned from Agricultural Extension Best Practices

    06-10-2015 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

  11. MELA - Mekong Extension Learning Alliance

    The Mekong Extension Learning Alliance (MELA) is a network under the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS)
    Agricultural Exten... Asia

  12. RELASER - Red Latinoamericana de Servicios de Extensión Rural

    RELASER is the Latin American Rural Extension Services Network, created in October 2010, in Santiago de Chile.On that occasion, a group of public and private institutions,under the international leadership ofGFRAS(Global Forum for Global Advisory Services), decided to create a space for debate...
    Agricultural Exten... Latin America and ...

  13. SARFAAS - Southern Africa Regional Forum for Agricultural Advisory Service

    The Southern African Regional Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services is a not for profit regional organization of Agricultural Extension and Advisory Systems (AEAS) in the Southern African region. SARFAAS aims at the enhanced utilization of improved knowledge and technologies by agricultural...
    Agricultural Exten... East Africa

  14. The New Extensionist Learning Kit - GFRAS

    From the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services The New Extensionist Learning Kit is a learning resource for individual extension field staff, managers, and lecturers. It is based on theThe 'New Extensionist' - Roles, Strategies, and Capacities to Strengthen Extension and Advisory Services, a...
    Agricultural Exten... Training