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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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  Participatory farm management methods for analysis, decision making and communication

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2007

  Central to the use of Participatory Farming Management (PFM) methods is the understanding that the farmer is the decision maker and that he or she takes the risks associated with change, not the advisor or researcher.
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  Bridging the gap between research, extension and the farmer in Eritrea

  Drylands Coordination Group, Norway, 2007

  This document presents the results of a workshop held by the Drylands Coordination Group (DCG) in Eritrea from the 4th-5th December 2003, which aimed to identify problems and recommend solutions in bridging the gap between research, extension and the farmer. The workshop consisted of presentations of 4 recent papers on related issues, followed by 4 working groups.
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  A green revolution in Africa: hope for hungry farmers?

  Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Winnepeg, 2006

  This paper explores the underlying definitions and assumptions present in the current search for new approaches to African agriculture, looking specifically at strategies for improving soil fertility.It advocates a farmer-centred approach that involves active participation of all relevant stakeholders, with the view that sustainable agricultural livelihoods need to be built from a foundation th
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  The Millennium Villages Project: a new approach to ending rural poverty in Africa?

  Natural Resource Perspectives, ODI, 2006

  The Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an initiative of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is an attempt at an integrated and bottom-up approach to getting African villages out of the poverty trap. It involves massive injections of capital targeted at, presently, a handful of villages, combining agricultural support with health, infrastructure and education interventions.
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  Living up to ambitions: for a more rigorous practice of participatory appraisals and enquiries

  Groupe de recherche et d'échanges technologiques, 2001

  Participatory methodologies in agricultural research and development are undoubtedly one of the mainstays of the nineties. But do these methodologies really live up to their ambition to change the nature of the relationships between farmers and outsiders?
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  Poverty and participation: an analysis of bias in participatory methods

  Livestock Development Group, 2003

  The report evaluates the visual and verbal biases impacting the use of participatory methods.
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  Prioritising farmers' extension needs in a publicly-funded contract system of extension: a case study from Mukono district, Uganda

  Overseas Development Institute, 2005

  How competent will Uganda’s new privatised extension system be? This paper reports on a case study conducted in Mukono District to assess the effectiveness of the "private service provider advisory system" in motivating farmer participation and control of the extension agenda.
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  Bio-intensive farming system: an alternative approach to address poverty and livelihoods concerns

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  This article explains the rise of rural impoverishment and marginalisation in Nepal as a function of the effects of globalisation, open market economic policies and inappropriate development policies.
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  Extension: a component description

  Mekonginfo, 2003

  This publication, which forms part of the “participatory village development and sustainable land use system” of the Lao-Swedish Forestry Program (LSFP), sets out to explain the extension procedures and methods practiced in LSFP target areas and to make information available for personnel involved in extension work.
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  Az Dekhon ba Dekhon (Farmer to Farmer): a participatory radio series for private farmers in Tajikistan

  Sustainable Development Department, FAO SD Dimensions, 2002

  This case study documents how the radio series Farmer to Famer used methods such as participatory audience research to respond to the concerns and questions of Farmers in Tajikistan through interviews with themselves and a range of agricultural experts.Farmers in Tajikistan have only recently begun to farm independently of the state and collective farms of the Soviet era, and now face challenge

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