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Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :798 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Rural development, agriculture, and related agencies appropriations for 1988 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
Download or read book Rural development, agriculture, and related agencies appropriations for 1988 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :794 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1988 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies
Download or read book Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1988 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gender Issues In Farming Systems Research And Extension by : Susan V. Poats
Download or read book Gender Issues In Farming Systems Research And Extension written by Susan V. Poats and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the product of an international conference hosted by the Women in Agricultural Development (WIAD) Program at the University of Florida in 1986. The purpose of WIAD program is to promote an understanding of gender and its relevance for agricultural development processes.
Book Synopsis ISNAR Agricultural Research Indicator Series by : Philip G. Pardey
Download or read book ISNAR Agricultural Research Indicator Series written by Philip G. Pardey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-05 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully-sourced country-specific files on the basic resources committed to national agricultural research systems for 154 developing and developed countries.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :952 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Rural development, agriculture, and related agencies appropriations for 1989 by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies
Download or read book Rural development, agriculture, and related agencies appropriations for 1989 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Private Sector and the Economic Development of Malawi by :
Download or read book The Private Sector and the Economic Development of Malawi written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Agricultural Development and Gender Issues in Malawi by : Anita Spring
Download or read book Agricultural Development and Gender Issues in Malawi written by Anita Spring and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1995 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two main topics constitute this volume. The first concerns general issues and themes on women and development (WID). The second involves the results of the Women in Argricultural Development Project (WIADP), a project designed and directed by the author in the 1980s. The author examines the results of the project, which include data sets, specific research findings, and policy changes in Malawi. The book deals with issues affecting both men and women farmers in the smallholder sector. It looks at activities that female and male government workers in the agricultural sector performed in order to raise general awareness of women's agricultural work and to provide agricultural services to smallholder farmers, particular women. This volume also touches on several of the author's experiences after WIADP, including serving as director for the Food and Agriculture Organization, (FAO)'s global program on women in agriculture; creating and supervising a training program on Gender Analysis; and supervising a portfolio of WID projects in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Near East.
Book Synopsis Vegetable Research and Development in Malawi by : M. L. Chadha
Download or read book Vegetable Research and Development in Malawi written by M. L. Chadha and published by AVRDC-WorldVegetableCenter. This book was released on 2008 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Context of Small-scale Integrated Agriculture-aquaculture Systems in Africa by :
Download or read book The Context of Small-scale Integrated Agriculture-aquaculture Systems in Africa written by and published by WorldFish. This book was released on 1991 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Framework to assess performance and impact of pluralistic agricultural extension systems by : Faure, Guy
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.
Book Synopsis FAO Research and Technology Paper by :
Download or read book FAO Research and Technology Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Modeling the effectiveness of the lead farmer approach in agricultural extension service provision: Nationally representative panel data analysis in Malawi by : Ragasa, Catherine
Download or read book Modeling the effectiveness of the lead farmer approach in agricultural extension service provision: Nationally representative panel data analysis in Malawi written by Ragasa, Catherine and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lead farmer (LF) approach has been implemented and heavily promoted nationwide in Malawi since 2009 to support government extension workers and accelerate technology dissemination. Earlier reports have shown that donor-funded projects in Malawi widely adopted the LF approach, indicating positive roles and contributions of LFs. However, national data show persistently low rates of adoption of management practices being promoted by the LFs, prompting this study to look closely at the nationwide implementation and effectiveness of the LF approach. Specifically, we model the effects of farmers’ interaction with and exposure to LFs and farmers’ access to LFs’ advice on farmers’ awareness of and adoption of several promoted technologies and management practices. We use data from 531 randomly selected LFs linked to panel data from 2,800 farming households and, using correlated random effects, model the effectiveness of the LF approach on technology awareness and adoption. This is complemented by 55 focus group discussions and in-depth interviews with agricultural extension development officers (AEDOs) and service providers. Our results point to two major conclusions. First, LFs support and assist AEDOs in their work, especially in organizing community meetings and farm demonstrations, and are also an important bridge between farmers and AEDOs. But LFs complement AEDOs’ work rather than substitute for it. In communities without strong AEDOs and community leaders to work with and monitor them, LFs were not active or performed at a substandard level. Second, results show limited coverage and weak implementation and effectiveness of the LF approach at the national level. Only 13 percent of farmers reported receiving agricultural advice from an LF in the last two years, and only 20 percent reported having interacted with an LF. Our econometric models also consistently show neither the farmers’ exposure or interaction with LFs nor farmers’ access to LFs’ advice had an effect on awareness of and adoption of the major agricultural management practices being promoted. When heterogeneity and types of LFs are unpacked, results show that quality of LFs, adoption behavior of LFs, and regular training of LFs have strong and consistent effect on the awareness and adoption of most agricultural practices promoted.
Book Synopsis Ecohealth Research in Practice by : Dominique F. Charron
Download or read book Ecohealth Research in Practice written by Dominique F. Charron and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-11-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about doing innovative research to achieve sustainable and equitable change in people’s health and well-being through improved interactions with the environment. It presents experiences from the field of ecosystem approaches to health (or ecohealth research) and some insights and lessons learned. It builds on previous literature, notably Forget (1997), Forget and Lebel (2001), Lebel (2003), and Waltner-Toews et al. (2008). Through case-studies and other contributions by researchers supported by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the book presents evidence of real changes in conditions of people, their health, and the ecosystems that support them. These changes were derived from applications of an ecosystem approach to health in developing regions of the world. The book also illustrates the resulting body of applied, participatory, and action research that improved health and environmental management in developing countries and, in many cases, influenced policies and practices.
Book Synopsis The History of Agricultural Extension in Malawi by : Jochen Knorr
Download or read book The History of Agricultural Extension in Malawi written by Jochen Knorr and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After some highlights about the emergence of Agricultural Extension in industrialised countries, a detailed outline of its history in Malawi is given. Besides publications the source of assessment of the Malawi extension system are interviews with farmers as well with actual and with retired extension staff from 2001. Recent developments since 2001 are again followed by literature review. As a result there is a clear picture, that despite regular reforms and changes in the extension approach, most of it did not really reach the ground, did not much affect, what happened at field level. The problems could never be solved in a satisfactory way, and as a consequence extension failed to fulfil its role for rural and small farmer development. The most crucial deficit seems to be, that at no times there was enough appropriate extension content, to justify all the efforts and costs of transfer. The recommended technologies were either too risky, or dependent on non-available inputs, too general and not adapted to local conditions. The recent reform, explained in detail in this book, seems appropriate, but also highly ambitious, certainly needing longer periods for full implementation. Looking to the past, one would be rather pessimistic about its chances for success. But seeing new market opportunities emerging and clear indicators for economic growth in Africa and even in Malawi, there is some good reason for hope. The book is a key to better understanding of the past and present problems of agricultural extension systems in Africa."--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis A History of Farming Systems Research by : Michael P. Collinson
Download or read book A History of Farming Systems Research written by Michael P. Collinson and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed history of farming systems research (FSR). While it includes the application of FSR to developed country agriculture, its main focus is on FSR in its original role, with small scale, resource-poor farmers in less developed countries. There are some 40 contributions from nearly 50 contributors from 20 countries, illustrating both the diversity and yet the coherence of FSR. The five parts of the book cover: (1) FSR - understanding farmers and their farming (FSR origins and perspectives; understanding farming systems); (2) the applications of farming systems research (FSR in technology choice and development; FSR in extension and policy formulation); (3) institutional commitment to FSR (FSR: some institutional experiences in national agricultural research; dimensions of the organization of FSR; training for FSR); (4) FSR: the professional dimension (regional and international associations; FSR and the professional disciplines); and (5) cutting edge methods, abiding issues and the future for FSR.
Book Synopsis Maize Technology in Malawi by : Paul W. Heisey
Download or read book Maize Technology in Malawi written by Paul W. Heisey and published by CIMMYT. This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Aquaculture for African Smallholders by : Randall E. Brummett
Download or read book Aquaculture for African Smallholders written by Randall E. Brummett and published by WorldFish. This book was released on 1995 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
