Agricultural Extension -- Worldwide Innovations

Contents: Preface. 1. Afghanistan/Tooryalai Wesa. 2. Benin/Agbo Bernard Philibert, Agoundote Desire, Midingoyi Gnonna Soul-kifouly. 3. Cote d'lvoire (Coste D'Ivoire)/Kouame Kouassi Alphonse. 4. Ghana/Edward Ackah Nyamike Jnr. and Charity Adjoe. 5. India/R. Saravanan. 6. Iran/Hossein Shabanali Fami, Ali Asadi and Khalil Kalantari. 7. Japan/Masami Yamada. 8. Jordan/Abdel Nabi Fardous and Jamal Alrusheidat. 9. Mozambique/Helder R. Gemo. 10. Nepal/Gana Pati Ojha and Birendra Bir Basnyat. 11. Peru/Oscar Ortiz and Willy Pradel. 12. Philippines/Florencia G. Palis, Rica Joy B. Flor and Grant Robert Singleton. 13. Trinidad and Tobago/Joseph Seepersad and Wayne G. Ganpat. 14. Zimbabwe/C.T. Gadzirayi, E. Mutandwa, D. Mufambi, J. Chihiya and T.A. Tigere.

"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 farmers. This book is an attempt to document the past experiences and recent developments in the agriculture knowledge information systems.

The fourteen country chapters highlight the worldwide agricultural extension reform measures (decentralization, privatization, demand driven and cost-recovery approaches), institutional pluralism (Public, private and NGOs) and innovations (farmer to farmer extension, participatory and Self Help Group (SHG) approaches and ICT initiatives).

The agricultural extension students, academicians, scientists, practitioners, administrators and policy makers will find this compilation of extension experiences from the fourteen countries relevant for designing future reforms, advancing pluralistic extension system and also to integrating innovations in their extension approaches."