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Searching with a thematic focus on Communication and knowledge exchange, Agriculture and food, Communication and extension, Extension, Extension farmer participation, Participation

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  Guide to Participatory Extension Procedures and Methods

  Mekonginfo, 2001

  Guide which aims to explain the procedures, methods and practices for participatory extension as tested and practised in target areas of the LSFP in the Savannakhet Province, Laos, and make information available for personnel involved in extension and village development work.
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  Participatory village development and sustainable land use system

  Mekonginfo, 2000

  Drawing on the experience of the Lao Swedish Forestry Programme, the paper explains how system components (suan prakob) and specific tools (kruang meur japoh) can be integrated into a process of village development planning, implementation and monitoring.
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  Formal farmers organisations in the agricultural technology system: current roles and future challenges (ODI)

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1996

  Farmers organisations (FOs) need to be relatively sophisticated and well-funded to become involved in agricultural technology development and transfer. This is because of the complexity of understanding members technological needs and of building productive partnerships with other technology suppliers.
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  Putting process into practice: operationalising participatory extension

  Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 1999

  This paper aims to stimulate discussion on the operationalisation of learning process approaches to community development and rural extension. It attempts to systematise a participatory extension approach into process phases and steps, which allow extension agents to understand the process dynamics, while preventing a blueprint implementation.
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  Farmer field schools and local agricultural research committees: complementary platforms for integrated decision-making in sustainable agriculture

  Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2000

  This paper compares the objectives, principles and processes of Farmer Field Schools (FFS) and local agricultural research committees (CIAL) as a basis for exploring their most appropriate use. This is particularly pertinant since they have begun to operate within the same geographic areas, and on occasion are supported by the same organisations (i.e. in Ecuador and Brazil).
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  Encouraging Sustainable Smallholder Agriculture in Southern Africa in the Context of Agricultural Services Reform

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 1998

  Summarises the results of six DFID funded country studies on encouraging sustainable agriculture in South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi. It emphasises the need for continuing government and donor support for sustainable increases in agricultural productivity which must underpin poverty alleviation.
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  Agricultural knowledge and information systems in Kenya: implications for technology dissemination and development

  Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2000

  This paper reports on a study of agricultural knowledge and information systems (AKIS), designed to document and assess the significance of different actors and organisations as potential uptake/dissemination pathways for agricultural technologies, and to consider ways to improve the performance of the knowledge and information systems in the districts.Rees et al.
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  Searching for sustainable land use practices in Honduras: lessons from a programme of participatory research with hillside farmers

  Agricultural Research and Extension Network, 2000

  Reports on the IPCA project that has been monitoring the development of local agricultural research committees (CIALs) in Honduras for the past five years.
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  Zimbabwe: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1998

  Report concentrates on ways of encouraging more sustainable smallholder agriculture in the drier regions of Zimbabwe within the context of reforms in agricultural services in a more liberal and plural economic and service environment. Paradoxically in Zimbabwe there is a need for both increased use of external inputs as well as a much greater emphasis on low external input technologies.
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  Zambia: encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture

  Environment and Development Consultancy Ltd, 1997

  Main purpose of this report is to present a balanced assessment of prospects for sustainable growth in smallholder agriculture in Zambia in the light of recent reforms. Given their historical underdevelopment in Zambia, and policy emphasis on the interface between state and market, the report also focuses particularly on the role of NGOs.

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