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Author : Fasil Kelemework
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Assessment of the Current Extension System of Ethiopia written by Fasil Kelemework and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ethiopian Economic Association
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Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book Evaluation of the Ethiopian Agricultural Extension with Particular Emphasis on the Participatory Demonstration and Training Extension System (PADETES) written by Ethiopian Economic Association and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. O. William
Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN 13 : 9291461849
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Improving Livestock Marketing and Intra-regional Trade in West Africa written by T. O. William and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It analyses the economic, institutional and policy constraints to livestock marketing and trade to provide a basis for new policy interventions to improve market efficiency and intra-regional livestock trade.
Author : Berhane, Guush
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The state of agricultural extension services in Ethiopia and their contribution to agricultural productivity written by Berhane, Guush and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We document the state of the extension system in Ethiopia and review the empirical evidence on the links between the key extension services provided, adoption of modern inputs, and agricultural productivity. In particular, we take stock of the provision of agricultural extension services, synthesize the evidence on the performance of the system, and suggest ways that it might contribute to accelerating agricultural growth and poverty reduction in the years ahead.
Author : Faure, Guy
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
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Download or read book Framework to assess performance and impact of pluralistic agricultural extension systems written by Faure, Guy and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extension and advisory services (EAS) are well recognized as a key factor in contributing to agricultural productivity and growth. However, rigorous evaluation of EAS approaches and assessment of complex national or subnational pluralistic EAS systems are rare. This working paper examines the literature on experiential and empirical insights and explores methods to assess complex pluralistic EAS systems. The authors present conceptual thinking on innovation systems and EAS, and review the IFPRI “best-fit” framework. This framework remains relevant because it is based on a holistic perspective with an impact pathway orientation. The paper aims to operationalize and improve the best-fit framework to guide the evaluation of complex EAS systems. The authors draw on and summarize existing literature to illustrate methods and tools used to analyze each component of the framework. The review pays close attention to the literature and methods for assessing the diversity of service providers and their various delivery tools and learning approaches. The discussion also pays close attention to the interaction of each component and how it affects the performance and impact of EAS from a systems perspective. This paper adds key points and considerations on how to operationalize the best-fit framework to carry out evaluations of pluralistic EAS.
Author : Abate, Gashaw T.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 74 pages
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Download or read book Accelerating technical change through video-mediated agricultural extension: Evidence from Ethiopia written by Abate, Gashaw T. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a rapidly growing enthusiasm around applications of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to smallholder agriculture in developing countries, there are still many questions on the effectiveness of ICT-based approaches. This study assesses the effects of videomediated agricultural extension service provision on farmers’ knowledge and adoption of improved agricultural technologies and practices in Ethiopia. The study focuses on a program piloted by the Government of Ethiopia and Digital Green and poses three questions. First, to what extent does video-mediated extension lead to increased uptake of improved agricultural technologies and practices by smallholder farmers? Second, is video-mediated extension targeted at both spouses of the household more effective than when only targeted at the (typically male) household head? Third, how cost-effective is a video-mediated approach to extension provision? The study explores these questions with a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate the video-mediated approach as applied to three priority crops (teff, wheat, maize) and three technologies (row planting, precise seeding rates, and urea dressing). The trial was implemented in 347 kebeles (village clusters) during the 2017 meher (rainy) season in Ethiopia’s four most agriculturally important regional states. Analysis of data from our surveys of 2,422 households and 896 extension agents indicates that the video-mediated approach is more effective than the conventional approach in achieving several key outcomes. Specifically, we find that videomediated extension reaches a wider audience than the conventional approach and leads to higher levels of agricultural knowledge and uptake of technologies in those kebeles randomly assigned to the program. While our results do point to greater participation and greater knowledge of female spouses in kebeles where both male and female spouses were targeted by the program, we do not find clear evidence that the more inclusive approach translated into higher uptake of the subject technologies and practices. Finally, we find that the video-mediated approach becomes less costly as the scale of operation increases.
Author : Catherine Ragasa
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Assessment of the Capacity, Incentives, and Performance of Agricultural Extension Agents in Western Democratic Republic of Congo written by Catherine Ragasa and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural extension is critical for agricultural growth and food security, but making the extension system effective, demand driven, and responsive to the needs of a diverse set of producers remains a challenge. As part of the institutional reforms in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the extension system is being reviewed to identify strategies and practical actions to transform the system to better respond to the knowledge needs in a rapidly changing agriculture and food sector. This paper provides an in-depth review of the agricultural extension system of DRC including an analysis of its policies and legal framework, organization, and management; links to critical institutions; and capacity and incentive of different actors in the system. This review involved document analyses, interviews with key informants, and surveys of 107 extension organizations and 162 extension agents in 156 randomly selected villages in western DRC. This review suggests serious funding constraints, human resource management problems, no linkage and coordination within the extension system and with research and education systems, and a majority of underserved communities and farmers. This review also highlights a good opportunity given the huge human resources (more than 11,000 agents) deployed into the sectors and territories as part of the Ministrys agricultural inspection system. However, their mandate is not clear and they currently focus on data collection (census) and checking what farmers do and limited in extension and advisory work. This review highlights the urgent need for human resource or civil service reform; public-sector commitment and funding; infrastructure rebuilding and skills upgrading in extension, education and training, and research organizations; and a unified policy or strategy with clear vision, mandate, targets, and performance-based incentive system.
Author : Sebsibie, Samuel
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
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Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Digital farmer registry and tailored extension and advisory services in Ethiopia: A process evaluation written by Sebsibie, Samuel and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2023-02-28 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopia hosts one of the largest extension systems in Africa, with approximately 43 development agents (DAs) per 10,000 farmers, more than 15,000 farmers training centers (FTCs) that serve as a focal point for agricultural development activities at the local level, and 25 Agricultural Technical Voca tional Education and Training (ATVET) institutes that prepare and update extension staff in both general and specialized fields of expertise (Berhane et al. 2018; ATA 2014; Davis et al. 2010). DAs report edly reach more than 75% of farm households in the country (CSA 2017), and every kebele hosts an average of three DAs, each with his or her own specialization. However, there are concerns about the quality of extension and advisory services DAs provide mainly because DAs are overburdened and under-resourced. DAs actively engage in activities that do not typically fall under the mandate of agricultural extension services, including the collection of taxes, loan repayments and mobilization of labor for public works. A related concern is the simple “technology-push” approach to agricultural intensification followed by most DAs since they do not have the time to closely know the farmers and provide a more “tailored and knowledge-driven” advisory that puts farmers’ priorities and technical capabilities at the center of DA’s effort (Berhane et al. 2018; Bachewe et al. 2017).
Author : Bernard, Tanguy
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Video-based agricultural extension written by Bernard, Tanguy and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2014, Digital Green and the Government of Ethiopia have been piloting a project to introduce a community-centric video approach to agricultural extension provision.1 Digital Green’s approach has the potential to transform extension in Ethiopia via a fairly simple impact pathway. By providing a cost-effective ap-proach to information dissemination, video-based extension can in-crease the adoption rate of productivity-enhancing agricultural technologies and practices by smallholder farmers, including in-creased adoption by women. The Digital Green approach could also improve data collection and analysis. This note, based on a more detailed project report,2 summarizes findings and recom-mendations that point the way to expanded use of video-based ag-ricultural extension.
Author : Davis, Kristin E., ed.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896293750
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Agricultural extension: Global status and performance in selected countries written by Davis, Kristin E., ed. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural transformation and development are critical to the livelihoods of more than a billion small-scale farmers and other rural people in developing countries. Extension and advisory services play an important role in such transformation and can assist farmers with advice and information, brokering and facilitating innovations and relationships, and dealing with risks and disasters. Agricultural Extension: Global Status and Performance in Selected Countries provides a global overview of agricultural extension and advisory services, assesses and compares extension systems at the national and regional levels, examines the performance of extension approaches in a selected set of country cases, and shares lessons and policy insights. Drawing on both primary and secondary data, the book contributes to the literature on extension by applying a common and comprehensive framework — the “best-fit” approach — to assessments of extension systems, which allows for comparison across cases and geographies. Insights from the research support reforms — in governance, capacity, management, and advisory methods — to improve outcomes, enhance financial sustainability, and achieve greater scale. Agricultural Extension should be a valuable resource for policymakers, extension practitioners, and others concerned with agricultural development.
Author : Henok Biazin
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Extension Service in Ethiopia written by Henok Biazin and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: This study was about the role of social system factors and farmer-development agent's relationship in affecting agricultural extension service the case of five selected woreda of Ilubabor Zone. The objectives of this study mainly focused on the current structure of extension system, social system factors and farmer-development agent as well as challenges pertaining agricultural extension service in the study area.Methods: The study employed both qualitative and quantitative research method in the form of triangulation. Therefore, survey, in-depth interview, observation and focus group discussion method has been employed to collect information from household heads, participants and interview respondents. For this study 5 woreda which can be representative for the whole has been purposively selected. Then, 3 kebele has been selected for information using simple random sampling technique. Finally, 350 households were selected from selected area for survey questionnaire by using systematic sampling technique. On the other hand, in-depth interview and FGD were conducted with purposively selected local community members and experts in the woreda. Results: The finding of the study revealed that, agricultural extension approach of the study area governed under direct supervision of regional level structure, the lower level structure has limited power and resource in extension service program. Furthermore, social system factors like social norms, gender role, religion and opinion leadership role have tremendous impact on agricultural extension service provision in the study area. Again, as the finding of this study indicated, there is no good relationship between farmers and development agents. Along with the challenges of agricultural extension service, problem like, staff turnover, skill gap, false report, ethical misconduct and budget constraint are few among many detrimental factors to extension service program in the study area.
Author : David Kaimowitz
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 0429714246
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Making The Link written by David Kaimowitz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about International Service for National Agricultural Research's (ISNAR) study to identify key factors that influenced the effectiveness and efficiency of links between research and technology transfer. It recommends ways to improve these links and reflects the progress made till date.
Author : Franz W. Gatzweiler
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319257188
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)
Download or read book Technological and Institutional Innovations for Marginalized Smallholders in Agricultural Development written by Franz W. Gatzweiler and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the book is to present contributions in theory, policy and practice to the science and policy of sustainable intensification by means of technological and institutional innovations in agriculture. The research insights re from Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The purpose of this book is to be a reference for students, scholars and practitioners inthe field of science and policy for understanding and identifying agricultural productivity growth potentials in marginalized areas.
Author : Dorosh, Paul A., ed.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896296911
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Ethiopia's agrifood system: Past trends, present challenges, and future scenarios written by Dorosh, Paul A., ed. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopia has experienced impressive agricultural growth and poverty reduction, stemming in part from substantial public investments in agriculture. Yet, the agriculture sector now faces increasing land and water constraints along with other challenges to growth. Ethiopia’s Agrifood System: Past Trends, Present Challenges, and Future Scenarios presents a forward-looking analysis of Ethiopia’s agrifood system in the context of a rapidly changing economy. Growth in the agriculture sector remains essential to continued poverty reduction in Ethiopia and will depend on sustained investment in the agrifood system, especially private sector investment. Many of the policies for a successful agricultural and rural development strategy for Ethiopia are relevant for other African countries, as well. Ethiopia’s Agrifood System should be a valuable resource for policymakers, development specialists, and others concerned with economic development in Africa south of the Sahara.
Author : Mamusha Lemma
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Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Agricultural Knowledge System in Tigray, Ethiopia written by Mamusha Lemma and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Di Franco
Publisher : IICA Biblioteca Venezuela
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Nature of Extension written by Joseph Di Franco and published by IICA Biblioteca Venezuela. This book was released on 1963 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ban A. W. Vam Den
Publisher : CBS Publishers & Distributors Pvt Limited, India
ISBN 13 : 9788123905761
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Extension written by Ban A. W. Vam Den and published by CBS Publishers & Distributors Pvt Limited, India. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
