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Knowledge driven development : private extension and global lessons /
Knowledge Driven Development: Private Extension and Global Lessons uses actual cases written specifically to study the role and capacity of private companies in knowledge sharing and intensification through agricultural extension. Descriptions of specific models and approaches are teased out of comp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Academic Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Public food policy and global development.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Knowledge Driven Development
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- About the Editors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Rationale and Aims of the Book
- Key Research Questions
- Research Methodology
- Overview of Content
- References
- 2 The Current Status and Role of Private Extension: A Literature Review and a Conceptual Framework
- Introduction
- Trends in the Development of Private Extension
- Pluralistic agricultural extension systems
- Privatization of public extension literature
- Private extension literatureConceptual Framework for the Analysis of Private Extension
- The public�private extension continuum�a framework
- What factors motivate entry, effectiveness, and sustainability of the private sector in extension provision?
- Operational framework for assessing, analyzing, and acting on extension reforms
- Assessment of the current state of extension
- Analysis
- Dialogue and consultations
- Action plan for reforms
- External factors
- Internal factors
- Assessing the need for private extension
- Concluding Remarks
- Private extension to supplement and complement public extensionDecentralization of extension and private extension
- Origins of Privatized Agricultural Extension Services Worldwide
- Privatization and commercialization of extension
- Attitude toward private extension/privatization
- Documentation of Case Studies on Privatization and National Reform Process
- Challenges and Issues Facing the Development and Expansion of Private Extension
- Concluding Remarks
- References
- 4 Private Sector Extension with Input Supply and Output Aggregation: Case of Sugarcane Production System with EID Parry in ... Introduction
- Description of the Value Chain (Production and Marketing System)
- Sugarcane company
- Sugarcane farmers
- Micro-irrigation companies
- Mechanization entrepreneurs
- Research system and the seedling multipliers
- Credit institutions
- Input dealers
- Public extension system
- Description of the Extension Approach