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2. Agricultural education : a catalyst for African development
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Format:
- Summary
- Publication Date:
- 1984-07-23
- Published:
- Africa: Agency for International Development
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 134 Document Number: C20550
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection, 28 pages; Executive summary of the general proceedings of the agricultural education workshop conducted in Younde, Cameroon, July 23-27, 1984
3. Agricultural management training for Africa : module III : extension and training
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- African Development Bank (AfDB), World Bank, Economic Development Institute (EDI), International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Management Systems International (MSI)
- Format:
- Manual
- Publication Date:
- 1985-07
- Published:
- Africa
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 132 Document Number: C19934
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection, 411 pages; Course Series, 071/003; volume 2
4. Agriculture and development: A brief review of the literature
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Dethier, Jean-Jacques (author) and Effenberger, Alexandra (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-06
- Published:
- Africa
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 159 Document Number: D07692
- Journal Title:
- Economic Systems
- Journal Title Details:
- 36 (2): 175-205
5. An overview of agricultural extension in Ghana and Burkina Faso and implications for sustainable agriculture in West Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Santuah, Niagia (author), Abazaami, Joseph (author), Kaunza-nu-dem Millar, Katharine (author), and Amikuzuno, Joseph (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2022-07-31
- Published:
- Nigeria: Academic Journals
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 205 Document Number: D12740
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development
- Journal Title Details:
- Vol. 14, N.3
- Notes:
- 7 pages, Agricultural extension is the medium through which external agricultural technologies have been transferred to and transplanted in Africa to improve agricultural performance. Over a period of close to a century, different agricultural extension models have been proposed but their structure and content has virtually been the same: top-down, linear, non-participatory transfer of technology with no feedback loops for reverse diffusion. This presumably explains the poor performance of Africa’s agriculture and the scale of food security challenges facing the continent. In this review paper, we trace the history of agricultural extension and examine various agricultural extension delivery models to identify their major strengths and weaknesses, using Ghana and Burkina Faso as case studies. We then review the most recent literature in the field about the philosophy, scope, content, delivery, and outcomes of agricultural extension. The conclusion that agricultural extension has consistently remained out of sync with the needs and aspirations of stallholder farmers was reached. Smallholder farmers are now calling for new agricultural extension delivery models that are truly farmer-led, indigenous knowledge-based, context-specific, culturally-relevant and environmentally-sustainable to guarantee efficient farming systems into the future.
6. Awareness level of use of Information Communication Technologies tools among Extension officers in the North- West Province, South Africa
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mabe LK (author), Oladele OI (author), and Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension, North –West University Mafikeng Campus, South Africa.
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2012-01
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 109 Document Number: D10986
- Journal Title:
- Life Science Journal
- Journal Title Details:
- 9(3) : 440-444
- Notes:
- 5 pages., A simple random sampling technique was used to select 169 extension officers to examine their level of awareness of information communication technologies in North West Province, South Africa. Data were collected with structured questionnaire and analysed using frequency counts, percentages and multiple regression analysis. The results show that majority of the extension officers were male (76%) with the mean age of 44.6 years, married (79%) and 82.5% were Christians. Forty one percent of the extension officers had Diploma as their educational qualification and a mean of 16.7 years as working experience. The results revealed that out of the 37 ICT tools listed, extension officers indicated high level of awareness of nine tools, which include mobile phones (1.79), computer (1.68), internet (1.77), overhead projector (1.62), fax machines (1.60), organization e mail (1.58), fixed telephone (1.52), personal email (1.52) and organization website (1.50). Significant determinants of awareness level were were religion (t = 1.91, p = 0.58); constraints to ICT use (t = 1.78, p = 0.78); importance of ICT tool (t = 1.93; p = 0.63) and 2 were significant at 0.05% which were competence on ICT use (t= 3.50; p = .001); (t= 2.0, p = .003). The study recommends that more information communication technologies should be made available to extension officers, so that they will become more aware of the use of ICT in extension work as tools that can gather and disseminate agricultural information.
7. Community-based extension
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Miano, David Mwangi (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-12
- Published:
- International: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, ACP-EU Brussels, Belgium
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00200
- Journal Title:
- Spore
- Journal Title Details:
- 156
- Notes:
- Via website. 2 pages.
8. Developing and strengthening extension partnerships
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Mattocks, D. (author)
- Format:
- Proceedings
- Publication Date:
- 1995-12
- Published:
- Africa: Sasakawa Centre for Continuing Education in Agriculture, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 134 Document Number: C20531
- Notes:
- Burton Swancon Collection, 55-62 pages from "Professional development of mid-career, front-line agricultural extension staff in Sub-Saharan Africa" Proceedings from a workshop
9. Effectiveness of agricultural extension services in reaching rural women : a synthesis of studies from five African countries
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Gill, Dhara S. (author / Department of Rural Economy, University of Alberta, Canada)
- Format:
- Paper
- Publication Date:
- 1987-10-05
- Published:
- Africa: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 130 Document Number: C19526
- Notes:
- Burton Swanson Collection, pp. 133-184; from "Workshop on improving the effectiveness of agricultural extension services in reaching rural women in Africa" Harare, Zimbabwe, 5-9 October 1987
10. Factors affecting performance of agricultural extension: evidence from Democratic Republic of Congo
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Ragasa, Catherina (author), Ulimwengo, John (author), Randriamamonjy, Josee (author), Badibanga, Thaddee (author), and International Food Policy Research Institution Washington, DC office Western and Central Africa Regional Office
- Format:
- Online journal article
- Publication Date:
- 2016-04
- Published:
- Netherlands: Taylor and Francis
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 108 Document Number: D10953
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension
- Journal Title Details:
- 22(2) : 113-143
- Notes:
- 32 pages, via online journal article, Purpose: As part of the institutional reforms and agricultural restructuring in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this paper provides an assessment of the performance of the agricultural extension system as well as factors explaining it. Method: This paper involves key informants’ interviews and surveys of 107 extension organizations and 162 extension agents in randomly selected 156 villages, analyzed using qualitative and logistic regression methods. Findings and Practical Implications: Results show that despite having one of the highest extension agent-to-farmer ratio and a pluralistic extension system, DRC fails to deliver knowledge and technologies to rural areas due to lack of coordination, no unified and clear policy and mandate, lack of funding, aging and low competencies of agents, and lack of mobility and interactions of agents with key actors. This paper complements findings by other studies that number of agents is not a sufficient indication of performance, but an effective system needs to focus on the enabling environment for agents to be motivated to work as mandated. In this paper, enabling conditions that are found to be statistically significant are external funding, enforcement of performance targets, systems of rewards and sanctions, mobility to foster linkages, and skills development. Originality: This paper contributes by: (1) analyzing a cross-section of various organizations and agents to identify factors that explain variations in performance in a statistical and systematic approach; (2) providing insights on how to prioritize investments and options for a fragile state like DRC, with weak infrastructure and institutional capacity and with a long history of neglect for their national extension system; and (3) illustrating how a rich and well-cited conceptual framework can be implemented empirically to provide policy options for a country like DRC.