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- Author : Suresh Chandra Babu
- Publsiher : Academic Press
- Release : 27 June 2019
- ISBN : 0128187530
- Pages : 410 pages
- Rating : 4/5 from 21 reviews
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Read or download book entitled Agricultural Extension Reforms in South Asia written by Suresh Chandra Babu which was release on 27 June 2019, this book published by Academic Press. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle Format. Book excerpt: Agricultural Extension Reforms in South Asia: Status, Challenges, and Policy Options is based on agricultural extension reforms across five South Asian countries, reflecting past experiences, case studies and experiments. Beginning with an overview of historical trends and recent developments, the book then delves into country-wise reform trajectories and presents several cases testing the effectiveness of different types (public and private) and forms (nutrition extension, livestock extension) of extension systems. Further, the book provides a comprehensive overview of challenges and constraints faced in formulating and implementing reforms, tying the results into a concrete set of lessons and highlighting areas that require further research. In addition, the book discusses how a major aspect of agricultural development is the productivity increase from the knowledge base of farmers, and how translating research results into a knowledge base for farmers requires designing and implementing well-functioning extension programs. Presents the current challenges and solutions by region, and provides insights for application in global settings Provides key foundational information for the effective and efficient design of future intervention programs Includes workshops and presentations based on real-world research of specific aspects of extension systems and provision of advisory and consultation services to various governments
- Author : Suresh Chandra Babu,P.K. Joshi
- Publisher : Academic Press
- Release Date : 2019-06-27
- Total pages : 410
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : Agricultural Extension Reforms in South Asia: Status, Challenges, and Policy Options is based on agricultural extension reforms across five South Asian countries, reflecting past experiences, case studies and experiments. Beginning with an overview of historical trends and recent developments, the book then delves into country-wise reform trajectories and presents several ...
- Author : Davis, Kristin E., ed.,Babu, Suresh Chandra, ed.,Ragasa, Catherine, ed.
- Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
- Release Date : 2020-09-02
- Total pages : 380
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : 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 ...
- Author : Jeevika Weerahewa,Andrew Jacque
- Publisher : Springer Nature
- Release Date : 2022-04-09
- Total pages : 478
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : This book is centred around various interwoven topics which are fundamental to policy analysis in agriculture. Key concepts and tools that are fundamental for the analysis of agricultural policies and programmes are presented. Key concepts introduced include, the role of the state in a market economy with examples from the ...
- Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
- Release Date : 2021-06-11
- Total pages : 390
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : Over the past few decades, some countries in Asia have been more successful than others in addressing poverty and malnutrition. The key question is what policies, strategies, legislation and institutional arrangements have led to a transformed agricultural sector, effectively contributing to poverty alleviation and addressing malnutrition. The great majority of ...
- Author : R. Saravanan
- Publisher : New India Publishing
- Release Date : 2008
- Total pages : 417
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : Agricultural extension is in a great transition worldwide. The demand for public extension reform is greater than ever before. The agriculture knowledge infrastructure is evolving in a big way with the emergence of pluralistic extension actors and innovations to cater the needs of the farmeThis book is an attempt to ...
- Author : Ojha, Shekhar Nath,Dey, Suman,Babu, Suresh Chandra
- Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
- Release Date : 2022-07-01
- Total pages : 31
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : Aquaculture and fisheries continues to be a sector that has not received adequate attention for its contribution to food security goals across the globe. This sector is predicted to grow at a fast rate in the next 40 years. In the Indian context, the government has prioritized the aquaculture and fisheries ...
- Author : World Bank
- Publisher : World Bank Publications
- Release Date : 2005-04-08
- Total pages : 532
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : Investing to promote agricultural growth and poverty reduction is a central pillar of the World Bank's current rural strategy, 'Reaching the Rural Poor' (2003). This 'Sourcebook' addresses how to implement the rural strategy, by sharing information on investment options and identifying innovative approaches that will aid the design of future lending ...
- Author : Kumar, Anjani,Singh, A. K.,Saroj, Sunil,Madhavan M., Misha,Joshi, Pramod Kumar
- Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
- Release Date : 2022-07-01
- Total pages : 41
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : The paper examines the impact of access to India’s farm science centers (Krishi Vigyan Kendras, or KVKs) on agricultural households’ welfare using household-level data from the nationally representative Situation Assessment Survey of Agricultural Households conducted by India’s National Sample Survey Office in 2013. Employing different matching techniques and endogenous ...
- Author : Ramesh Chand
- Publisher : Springer Nature
- Release Date : 2022-07-01
- Total pages : 212
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : Download or read online Indian Agriculture Towards 2030 written by Ramesh Chand, published by Springer Nature which was released on . Get Indian Agriculture Towards 2030 Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....
- Author : Mohamed Behnassi,Sidney Draggan,Sanni Yaya
- Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
- Release Date : 2011-03-29
- Total pages : 408
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : Human-kind and ecological systems are currently facing one of the toughest challenges: how to feed more billions of people in the future within the perspective of climate change, energy shortages, economic crises and growing competition for the use of renewable and non renewable resources. This challenge is even more crucial ...
- Author : A. W. van den Ban,Ranajit Kumar Samanta
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release Date : 2006
- Total pages : 435
- ISBN : 0128187530
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- Author : Babu, Suresh Chandra,Ogunniyi, Adebayo,Balana, Bedru,Andam, Kwaw S.
- Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
- Release Date : 2020-06-26
- Total pages : 34
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : The aim of Nigeria’s extension reform and transformation agenda through its new national extension policy (NEP) is to put in place a legislated, pluralistic, farmer-responsive, and market-oriented extension system. The reformed extension system aims at an assured and regular source of funding and a well-trained and motivated staff, effectively ...
- Author : Inderjit Singh,Banco Mundial
- Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
- Release Date : 1990
- Total pages : 444
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : Poverty is the grim reality for some 400 million people - mostly small farmers and agricultural laborers - in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. To remedy the problem, South Asian governments and international agencies have focused on raising the productivity of small farms and increasing opportunities for rural employment. This strategy, however, ...
- Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
- Release Date : 2020-04-01
- Total pages : 252
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : This publication contains twelve modules which cover a selection of major reform measures in agricultural extension being promulgated and implemented internationally, such as linking farmers to markets, making advisory services more demand-driven, promoting pluralistic advisory systems, and enhancing the role of advisory services within agricultural innovation systems. The reform issues ...
- Author : Vos, Andrea,Pyburn, Rhiannon
- Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
- Release Date : 2021-02-11
- Total pages : 67
- ISBN : 0128187530
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Summary : This report analyses PIM’s 391 peer-reviewed 2018 and 20191 publications. We highlight key gender findings and discuss the challenges faced by researchers in doing gender analysis, with a view to documenting lessons learned and improving practices. It is hoped that the gaps and strengths identified in this report will be useful inputs ...
