AgReach - Spring Symposium on Revalorizing Extension: Evidence and Practice
अप्रिल 02, 2018 13:29 -
अप्रिल 03, 2018 13:29
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
USA
Presented By: AgReach
This symposium will bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss and deliberate on:
- How to highlight extension’s crucial role in international agricultural development
- What works in agricultural/rural advisory services and why
- How to effectively deliver extension services to smallholder farmers
- What it takes to increase support for extension services
Topics of Interest:
- Effective extension methods at the farmer, organizational, and country/system levels
- Innovative approaches to sustainably reach women farmers and youth
- Using ICTs to empower staff and reach more farmers
- The political economy of agricultural extension
- Extension in post-conflict and post-disaster contexts
- Partnerships to strengthen extension
- Extension for improved nutrition, natural resource management, and sustainable agriculture
Event hosted by: AgReach; Office of International Programs; University of Illinois College of ACES; INGENAES; Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program