Knowledge driven development : private extension and global lessons / / edited by Yuan Zhou, Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, Basel, Switzerland Suresh Chandra Babu, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, USA ; contributors, Kolawole Adebayo [and sixteen others]

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, [Netherlands] : , : Academic Press, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Disciplina: 630.715
• Soggetto topico: Agricultural extension work; Agricultural productivity
• Soggetto geografico: Developing countries
• Persona (resp. second.): ZhouYuan; BabuSuresh Chandra; AdebayoKolawole
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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 literature""""Conceptual Framework for the Analysis of Private Extension""; ""The publicâ€?private extension continuumâ€?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 extension""""Decentralization 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"" ; ""Analysis of the Private Extension Services with Respect to Relevance, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Equity, Sustainability, an ...""
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 complex situations exhibiting a range of agricultural, regulatory, socio-economic variables. Illustrative cases focus on a particular agricultural value chain and elaborate the special feature of the associated private extension system. Chapters presenting individual cases of private extension also
• Titolo autorizzato: Knowledge driven development
• ISBN: 0-12-802231-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910797134103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Public Policy and Global Development