AgReach - Spring Symposium on Revalorizing Extension: Evidence and Practice

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